mplayerplug-in broken with firefox

Featherfoot

Hello,

Over the weekend I installed mplayer and the firefox and now videos don't work. What happens (on CNN) is that the wmp file starts loading, stops and restarts over and over. Myway.com does the same thing.

Based on another post, I discovered that somebody improved the USE variables and set them up. That improved them to the above state.

Settings below:

I have no idea how to correct this problem.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:30 am Post subject:

Are you able to play wmp file with mplayer itself? can you show the output of

Dammital · Apprentice Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 189

I reproduced your problem using galeon rather than firefox while trying to play the first video I could find at cnn.com.

The mplayerplug-in was attempting to play an asf file:

Featherfoot · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:37 am Post subject:

I can play .wmv files by themselves with mplayer.

Here is the output requested:

Dominique_71 · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

Ask CNN and MyWay to not force the users to use the wmp. If you look at the code of those website, it is what they are doing and it is a scandal.
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gentel · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Austria

Hi!

Try version 3.21 of mplayerplug-in.
With the new version 3.31-r1 (with all necessary USE flags) I can't play videos from www.sport1.at.

It's a pity that I must use the old one, because the new one looks greater.

Best wishes

Old School · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:05 am Post subject:

I had the same problem after a -uND world upgrade.
I switched back to the 3.21 version of mplayerplug-in like gentel suggested, and everything works fine.
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Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

i just emerged mplayerplug-in (it pulled in mplayer since it needs it) yet i cant figure out how to get firefox to play .mov's

after i did the emerge i tried adding aas and win32codecs to my use flag and did an emerge --update --deep --newuse world and it still wont work.

any ideas?

Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

ok, i looked in about:plugins and it appears that 3.31 doesn't list .mov as a recognized format... (odd since it says its "Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer")

i'll try to figure out how to downgrade and see if that helps...

edit: ok i installed the 3.21 version and the video playes, but i get no sound.... and about:plugins shows both 3.21 and 3.31 are installed.

Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

i added quicktime to my USE flag and reemerged now i have v3.31 working perfectly

jeanfrancis · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

Great

db_404 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 336

I had the same symptoms as Featherfoot on cnn.com - after much chasing down versions I started removing use flags. It started working after removing xv & xvid from mplayer - so I can only assume it was a problem with interaction with the X server.

mplayer use flags ended up as

cameta · Veteran Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 1351

Removing xv & xvid from mplayer solved the problem for me also.

vmiv73 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 2

OK, I have the same problem others described. I use sport1.at a lot for video views. Never had a prob with the PC.

Now I have the latest and greatest Macbook Pro, and the darn thing won't run videos from this site. Seems to be looking for a missing plugin for Windows Media Player. WMP is installed on the computer, but apparently that isn't sufficient.

So it seems from the other stuff I've read that I need an older version of mplayer plugin, version 3.21 supposedly will make the videos viewable. I did locate this, and I think Ieven downloaded it, but have no idea how to use it or tell WMP to use it or whatever you have to do with a mac.

I also see somebody has changed some of the code in the WMP or plugin, which seems as though that would work (deleting useflags?????????) but I have NO IDEA how to even access this code, or where to look for it, or how to change it. Yadda yadda yadda

I would GREATLY appreciate any assistance available on this. I'm beginning to have regrets on this switch to a mac, even though the notebook is sweet. The system is so dang weird.

I don't want to load windows and do the bootcamp thing, although I suppose that's a possibility... right??

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

VM
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vmiv73 · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 2

More specifics: First, you click on the video you want to watch. Then, a blank video box with the message "Click here to download plugin" appears.

Then, you click that, and a message box drops in saying:

"No suitable plugins were found"

"Unknown plugin (application/x-mplayer2)"

Thanks again.
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cameta · Veteran Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 1351

Put here the result of this command
emerge -pv mplayerplug-in
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cameta · Veteran Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 1351

Remove use xv & xvid from mplayer
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Haystack · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject:

This reminds me why the Gentoo Forums rock so hard. Spent half an hour on google to end up in the good ol' gentoo forums. Problems solved.

Thanks.

col · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:55 am Post subject:

I had the same problem .... videos would start to play & then just show "stopped"

to fix all I did was right click the video window & change from xv to x11