mplayerplug-in problem

[Stanton Finley]

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.
-- 
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/