On 11:33 Sun 27 Nov , Mark Knecht wrote: > On 11/27/05, Nicolas Litchinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 11:03 Sun 27 Nov , Manuel McLure wrote: > > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Does anyone have this problem? I click a link, such as on the page I > > > > put in this email, I get a new Firefox window, mplayerplug-in seems to > > > > be downloading, but then never plays. If I look at processes using top > > > > and ps aux I do not see mplayer at all. > > > > > > > > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/11/more-music.html > > > > > > > > There are ogg and mp3 links to try. > > > > > > What version of mplayerplug-in are you running? I *greatly* recommend > > > using at > > > least 3.11 (which is still marked ~x86) - it's the first that works really > > > well for me (the earlier releases would crash firefox when you left the > > > page > > > with the video on it.) I'd also see the problem you see with earlier > > > versions > > > - the page would appear to download the video but nothing would happen. > > > > I am still running version 2.80 of the mplayerplug-in and it works just > > fine. Though I must admit that I had the same problem as Mark at the > > beginning. It came from the default video driver used by > > mplayer/mplayerplug-in which wasn't compatible with my video card. I had > > to edit the ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf file: > > > > vo=xv > > ao=alsa > > osdlevel=1 > > > > I hope that it helps. > > > > -- > > Nicolas Litchinko > > Hi, > Interesting. Two questions: > > 1) Is xv a driver that you use for your video card? The specific > system I'm looking at has this in xorg.conf: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Intel 810" > Driver "i810" > #VideoRam 65536 > # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate > EndSection > > Would I choose 'i810' where you used 'xv'? >
This is the name of the video driver used by mplayer and it's not really related to the xorg driver (I'm using the nvidia xorg driver). You can get a list of all those mplayer offers by using: mplayer -vo help > 2) The system in question doesn't have a file > ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf. Did you create this file or was it > there for you to modify? > I think I had to create this file. -- Nicolas Litchinko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
