Re: geting the mplayer (or realplayer) pluging to actually work?

From: Adam K Kirchhoff (adamk_at_sorrow.ashke.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 17:58:34 -0500

hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:

> I've taken another stab at mplyaer in mozila. Now it *claims* to work,
> and tries to play, but doesn't.
>
> For example, if I try foxnews's "Baghdad Cam", it pops up the window,
> and withn the display area announces that it's running mplayer and the
> url. The xterm from which mozilla was launched shows some activity (I
> have to bring the job to the foreground), but nothing happens.
>
> If the url is short enough to read, I can play it from an xterm (but
> most aren't), eg "mplayer mms://66.232.154.28/fox1" shows the Baghdad
> cam.
>
> I've seen mplayer messages in display window on some sites, suggesting
> that it's trying to load, but it remains at 0 bytes in the cache.
>
> I'm using mozilla 1.5 from a week or two ago.
>
> I'm using type video/x-ms-asf (an included type), with
> "/usr/local/bin/mplayer %s" as the command (though I get the same
> results without the %s, which no longer seems to be necessary.

Have you tried any other sites? How about trailers on Apple's sites?

Adam