Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

[Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>]

On 06/21/2005 04:00 PM, Martin D. Weinberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running sarge and have:
> 
> ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
> 
> with mplayer and plugger installed.  When I launch the cnn video window,
> mplayer doesn't run.  plugger does launch the process, e.g. from ps:
> 
>  plugger-5.1.3 24832,1,41,52428840,0,0,468,297 mplayer -quiet -cache 8192 -vop pp -autoq 99 -nojoystick -nofs -zoom -osdlevel 1 -xy $xsize -wid $hexwindow "$url" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null
> 
> I probably have something misconfigured, but don't know what.  However,
> mplayer does work properly on the test movies at the "plugger testing ground" site.
> 
> Any ideas?  If this works for you folks, then I'm stumped.
> 

Martin,

Works fine for me with sarge and mplayer-586 from marillat:
mplayer-586:
  Installed: 1:1.0-pre7-0sarge0.1
and from contrib:
mozilla-mplayer:
  Installed: 2.70-1

I do not have plugger.

Regards,
Ralph