Sound but no video with wmv's, mplayerplug-in... [SOLVED]

geeyoff · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 21

Hi. It seems like this has come up with other people, but after hours of following previous posts, I've made no progress.

When I try to play a wmv file inside of Firefox using mplayerplug-in, audio works fine, but there's no video. Just a scroll bar moving across the bottom as it progresses. Loading the video in regular Mplayer works fine, though, so I know that the win32codecs are working there. I've tried both versions 1.66 and 1.80 for mplayerplug-in, but that's made no difference.

I'd be happy to post information from files and outputs from commands, but I'm not sure what would be most helpful. Here's a relevant portion of my "about:plugins," though:

elvisthedj · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 483 Location: Nampa, ID

have you emerged the latest win32 codecs? Can you post a link of something that doesn't work?
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geeyoff · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 21

Yeah, I've got the latest codecs emerged. An example of what wasn't working can be found at http://media.ebaumsworld.com/starwarskidedit.wmv

I managed to fix this problem by fiddling around with /etc/mplayer.conf. Why I didn't think to do this before is beyond me... Anyway, at least one of the following two lines are what fixed it: