mplayer streaming on F9 and F10

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:12 -0800, Alex Makhlin wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 01:00 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> >   
> > > I can crank up Firefox and listen to the "oldies" and "smooth jazz" channels on
> > > http://www.club977.com on a computer with F8/x86_64 and mplayer.
> > > 
> > > Same setup on F9 and F10-beta doesn't play anything.
> > > 
> > > I'm having difficulty getting anything that's non-flash-based to play as a
> > > stream through Firefox on F9 and F10-beta, but everything just works with the
> > > exact same setup on F8.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone else see the same results as me?
> > >     
> > 
> > Works for me. I use gecko-mediaplayer (which runs mplayer). Maybe that's
> > what you're missing.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> >   
> Many people are having issues with the latest Firefox 3.0.4 upgrade
> and I am having the same problem since the last Fedora update. I am
> running Fedora 9, KDE 4.2 and had no problems in the past but since
> Firefox has been updated to version 3.0.4 I can no longer listen to
> most streams unless I use a media player like Amarok. I have
> gecko-mediaplayer and plugin installed.

I'm still on FF 3.0.2, which is the latest repo version. Did you
download direct from Mozilla?

poc