Re: cannot play some videos in mozilla mplayer
On Sat, 13 May 2006 11:35:23 -0400
"H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to play videos from sites in Mozilla using the
> mozilla-mplayer plugin. As an example, CNN site's videos do not play.
> On the other hand, I can play all the vidoes in Google Video and
> UTube. I am wondering, is the problem with the remote web site or is
> it my Debian Etch? Is someone else able to play videos from CNN's
> website?
>
> On CNN's website (not a huge fan of CNN btw), a new window opens and
> mplayer plugin starts and gives messages regarding 'download' etc, and
> then it just stops and does nothing. No controls are shown. Only
> "Connected" is shown at the top where the mplayer messages appear.
>
> I have:
> $> dpkg -l *mplayer* | grep ^ii
> ii mozilla-mplayer 3.21-1 MPlayer-Plugin for
> Mozilla ii mplayer 1.0-pre7cvs20060325-0.3 The Ultimate
> Movie Player For Linux
> ii mplayer-skin-blue 1.5-0.5 default skin for mplayer
>
> $> dpkg -l *mozilla* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $2 "\t" $3}'
> flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.63.0-0.0
> mozilla-browser 1.7.12-1.1
> mozilla-calendar 1.7.12-1.1
> mozilla-cascades 0.4.0-2
> mozilla-dom-inspector 1.7.12-1.1
> mozilla-enigmail 0.93-1
> mozilla-firebird 0.8-12
> mozilla-firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
> mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
> mozilla-firefox-gnome-support 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
> mozilla-firefox-locale-pa-in 1.5.0.1lang20060327-1
> mozilla-mailnews 1.7.12-1.1
> mozilla-mplayer 3.21-1
> mozilla-psm 1.7.12-1.1
> mozilla-thunderbird 1.0.7-3
> mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail 0.93-1
> mozilla-thunderbird-offline 1.0.7-3
>
>
> thanks,
> ->HS
>
>
>
Sounds like the problem (and workaround) described here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360916
--
Liam
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