[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[David Hopkins]

Shoot, meant K12LTSP version in the first line.

On 2/5/07, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> I am using the Firefox version that was released last August.  I try to
> update during the summer for the servers.  I did install Firefox 2.0 over
> Christmas break since 1.5 was crushing the servers (very resource
> intensive).  2.0 is much less so though still heavier than Mozilla ever
> was.  I will try the other suggestions later this week (hopefully tomorrow
> night) and post back results.  The plug-in doesn't work correctly though, of
> that I am certain having spent a few hours yesterday with it.  And the gui
> just hangs on any video which is strange, even when launched via
>
> mplayer -gui some_video_file
>
> It starts to play the video, and hangs.  mplayer some_video_file works
> without issues.   There are about a zillion options for mplayer, so perhaps
> some combination will work.  I do notice during the manual compile/build
> that there are numerous warnings from the gcc compiler about pointers and
> such.  I have the latest versions of gcc (and associated libraries).
>
> Thanks for all of your efforts.
>
>
>  On 2/4/07, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
> >
> > David,
> >
> > What build of K12LTSP are you are on? Are you using the standard Firefox
> > 1.5.x? If you like I can give you my little ftp site and I'll tar.gz all
> > the rpm's that will let Mplayer work on all formats of video/audio, out
> > of the box.you can down them all, install and you should have working
> > Mplayer and less frustration.
> > Why dont you post your - about:plugins - typed into the address bar of
> > Firefox here? We maybe be able to see what you are missing. Try going to
> > cartalk DOT com and try and play some of the real audio media there and
> > see if your audio at least works correctly. Can you play any videos,at
> > say
> > msn DOT com video selections? This will get you some various
> > possibilities
> > of formats that *should* work with mplayer. Have you installed the
> > Mplayer
> > plugin? If so you should have the "controls" built into the we browser
> > itself. You shouldn't have to do the terminal stuff to make Mplayer
> > work.If it works correctly this way your gui interface will work as well
> > as standalone providing you have given Mplayer the correct audio/video
> > plugin, in the Mplayer.conf file.
> >
> > Hope this helps a little.
> > Take Care,
> >
> > Barry Cisna
> >
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