Re: videos not playing ... sometimes
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:38:43 -0700, prad wrote:
>
>> i'm using squeeze stable and gnome.
>>
>> sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play
>> at all through firefox, but will through epiphany.
>
> What do you mean by "don't play"? What's showed instead the video?
>
it loads up, but nothing plays. it freezes and you just see a black
window for movieplayer or mplayer.
>> if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or
>> mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so
>> the download is obviously fine).
>
> Are these videos also flashplayer based movies or different media files
> (mpeg, avi...)? Anyway, if you launch the video from command line
> probably you will get more information on why it fails to load.
>
they are whatever i convert it to. none of them work.
right now it's working again. i will take your suggestion and see what i
can find from the command line when it stops. thx camaleon!
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in friendship,
prad
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