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

[David Hopkins]

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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