On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:54, JB wrote:

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 08:49, Gil Weber wrote:

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www.mlsnet.com (that's MLS.NET)

All works fine for me with Suse 10 with latest KDE n Konq. You'll need MPlayer installed to enable WMV support. Matthew

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:14, Carl Hartung wrote:

This *almost* works, displaying the proper embedded mplayerplug-in screen and buffering the clip, but buffering stops at 99%. This happens with both .wmv and .avi clips. I suspect this might have something to do with needing to "Log in" to download clips and post comments. I don't want to register at the site so I can log in and see if the problem goes away.

All the video content worked for me, I'm not a member.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:14:14 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

I don't want to register at the site so I can log in and see if the problem goes away.

I didn't register- it works fine have. Try playing one of the URL's from the commandline and see if there are any error messages. Charles -- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Something Wicked happened! %4.4x.\n",...); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/sundance.c

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:46:30 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

From .xsession-errors: Window manager warning: Window 0x4200019 (MPlayer) sets an MWM hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 1 x 1 and max size 2147483647 x 2147483647; this doesn't make much sense.

Don't look at .xsession-errors, plus I doubt that you are using MWM. Start mplayer in a console with one of the URL's, for example: mplayer mms://a1503.v115042.c11504.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1503/11504/v0001/mlbmls.download.akamai.com/11504/2006/open/topplays/04/041506_lagcdc_razov_goal_350.wmv and look at the console to see if there are any error messages. Charles -- Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de, Andre Fachat)

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:02:50 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

It looks like MPlayer is looking for a codec called 'avisynth.dll' that isn't included with the latest available w32codec-all package from Packman (20050412-0.pm.0).

This means that none of the demuxers in mplayer were able to read the file, so mplayer decided to fallback to avisynth dll which does not exist in w32codec-all. It looks like the wmv9dmo codec is not loading. What is the output of ls /usr/lib/win32/*dmo* ? Charles -- printk("NONONONOO!!!!\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/atm/zatm.c

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:06:17 -0400 Carl Hartung wrote:

/usr/lib/win32/wma9dmod.dll /usr/lib/win32/wmspdmod.dll /usr/lib/win32/wmadmod.dll /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll /usr/lib/win32/wmsdmod.dll /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll

Strange, they are there. Try putting the file that I sent you privately in /etc/mplayer and try again. Also, which version of mplayer are you using? Charles -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)

On Wed April 19 2006 4:11 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:22, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

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Strange, they are there. Try putting the file that I sent you privately in /etc/mplayer and try again. Also, which version of mplayer are you using?

I'm running the latest available from Packman:

MPlayer-1.0pre7try3-4 mplayerplug-in-3.21-0.pm.0 w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0

I broke down, signed up and downloaded some test clips from the problem site (.mpg, .wmv & .avi). These files play just fine, locally, so it isn't the codecs. No joy with your codecs.conf file, either, but thanks for sending it!

Carl

Carl and all, I have made some progress. Now installed: mplayer 1.0pre7try3-4 i586 mplayerplug-in-3.21-0.pm.0 i586 kmplayer-0.9.2_0.99.1-1.guru.suse100 i686 w32codec-all-200504 12-0.pm i586 I removed gxine-plugin from Firefox. mplayerplug-in shows as installed in YaST. However, I don't see it in Firefox about:plugins. Nor do I see it in /home/gil/.mozilla/plugins or in  /home/gil/.mozilla/firefox or in /home/gil/firefox/plugins. So if mplayerplug-in is there, it's hiding from me. I am unable to tell if it is doing anything. :o) Here's what I now see on the websites: On www.mlsnet.com Windows Media Player opens and I get the video! :o) However, there is no audio. :o( On www.soccerfanatics.net/browse.php Windows Media Player tries to open but none of the videos play. :o( And just for the heck of it, I looked on cnn.com, clicking on any of the news links that have a small video camera icon next to them. Windows Media Player appears on screen, and it looks as it it's trying to load data (the small clock that says "wait" is going round and round, but it never stops going round and round). The videos never play. (Well, I am assuming that if I wait 2 minutes or more that it should have loaded, and if it hasn't after about 2 minutes it's not going to...) So, some progress! I am still wondering whether mplayerplug-in is actually working or not. How can I tell? Thx Gil

On Wed April 19 2006 5:22 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 17:03, Gil Weber wrote:

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I have made some progress.

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Hi Gil,

You've definitely made progress, now try this:

Close Firefox, open Konqueror, click your 'home' button, turn on the 'show hidden files' option under the 'view' menu, navigate into your ~/.mozilla directory and drill down/around until you find the file called 'pluginreg.dat'. Delete that file so Firefox will re-register the installed plug-ins the next time you launch it.

Launch Firefox and check 'about:plugins' in the address bar.

regards,

Carl

Arrrgggh! OK, I followed these instructions. And sure enough, the plug- ins reregistered. But now the videos don't play on those sites! :o( Can you say "frustrating"? Gil

On Wednesday, April 19, 2006 @8:56 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 21:30, Gil Weber wrote:

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Arrrgggh! OK, I followed these instructions. And sure enough, the plug- ins reregistered. But now the videos don't play on those sites! :o(

If they were already playing why did you follow my instructions?! Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

Carl

Carl Well, as an outside observer, it looked to me like you told him to(?). Greg W

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 17:03, Gil Weber wrote: <snip> Addendum: I *do* have MPlayer configured and working correctly. The soccerfanatics.net videos start buffering in embedded mode (within the web page) and stop at 98% or 99%. However, once they stop buffering, if you click the 'Play' button (tiny right-arrow) in the player's controls along the bottom edge of the player screen, the videos play. :-) This is *atypical* behavior... generally speaking, when links like that start buffering, they continue on to play automatically. The 'problem' here is how they're wrapped in the page for serving, not the player configuration (at least at this end.) FWIW all my other 'test' sites are working correctly, too, including cnn.com and c-span. regards, Carl

On Thursday 20 April 2006 00:14, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

This is really strange. At first I thought there might be something wrong with Packman's mplayer package (my local copy is from cvs dated Apr. 16, 2006), so I downloaded and tried it. You know what, it worked fine also. I am at a lost as to what is wrong with your system. Can you please try to play one of the URL's from the console and send me the full output.

Charles

Hi Charles, You must have missed my previous post. It turns out there's nothing wrong with my system. It just never occurred to me :-) to click the 'Play' button when buffering stopped at 99%. In all fairness, I still think there's something amiss at the soccerfanatics.net server. That is the first and only site I've been to where the video clips don't play automatically once buffering has begun. Thanks a lot for your time and effort! Carl