mplayerplug-in problem

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 19 06:12:31 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:36 -0600, Stanton Finley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:23 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Thu April 13 2006 18:59, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > > It's said that the mplayer plugin off the fedora repos for FC5
> > > is bugged.  Best thing to do is to go here and replace what
> > > you have with this:
> > >
> > > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/download.php
> > >
> > > See if that solves your problem.
> > 
> > You may recall that I tried your suggestion on my FC4 box, and it 
> > worked. I've finally gotten around to trying it on my FC5 box, 
> > but, while the behavior has changed, the video still won't play. 
> > Instead of getting a momentary "buffering" message that quickly 
> > changed to "stopped", now, I get a seemingly successful 
> > connection to the video, and a message "playing" - the bottom 
> > line of the plug-in window and the text in the dialog message 
> > sort of 'shake' or quiver; nothing comes of it, however, 
> > certainly no video. Tried the same link from my Windows machine, 
> > and it plays fine. 
> > -- 
> > Claude Jones
> > Bluemont, VA, USA
> > 
> 
> You could try Thomas Chung's build. See the Mplayer section at
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html.
> -- 
> Stanton Finley
> http://stanton-finley.net/

Why it's the famous Stanton Finley! :)

Thanks for your advice.  And that's an excellent Core 5 install page you
did, thanks for putting that up as well.  I've recommended your install
page to some other people, they had kind words for you.

Take care

LX

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