Videos not playing with mplayer & player-plugin

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Yes, mplayer-plugin is what I have been using all along and it wasn't
playing the video; just loads it.

On 5/20/05, Endymion <endy at digitalgrotto.net> wrote:

> Ahh, I'm using gmplayer so i get the control box thing which has a
> button for that menu. the second line of my gui.conf file in my .mplayer
> directory reads
> vo_driver = "xv"
> If you are not using a gui, then perhaps this config file is meaningless
> for you.  I find gmplayer a really good interface, so you might want to
> look in to that.
> For playing video within firefox, i believe you need the mplayerplug-in
> which you can grab from the dag repository at
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/mplayerplug-in/.  When i've had firefox
> open up video it has flickered for 15-30 seconds before finally
> displaying smooth video.  Now i just tell firefox to launch gmplayer.
> Good luck :)
> 
> -Endy
>