mplayerplug-in problem
Stanton Finley
stanfinley at comcast.net
Tue Apr 18 20:36:53 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:23 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thu April 13 2006 18:59, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > It's said that the mplayer plugin off the fedora repos for FC5
> > is bugged. Best thing to do is to go here and replace what
> > you have with this:
> >
> > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/download.php
> >
> > See if that solves your problem.
>
> You may recall that I tried your suggestion on my FC4 box, and it
> worked. I've finally gotten around to trying it on my FC5 box,
> but, while the behavior has changed, the video still won't play.
> Instead of getting a momentary "buffering" message that quickly
> changed to "stopped", now, I get a seemingly successful
> connection to the video, and a message "playing" - the bottom
> line of the plug-in window and the text in the dialog message
> sort of 'shake' or quiver; nothing comes of it, however,
> certainly no video. Tried the same link from my Windows machine,
> and it plays fine.
> --
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
>
You could try Thomas Chung's build. See the Mplayer section at
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html.
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Stanton Finley
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