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

From: Adam K Kirchhoff (adamk_at_sorrow.ashke.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 21:14:08 -0500

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

> In article <m23c9xm4bp.fsf@thorn.ashke.com>,
> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@sorrow.ashke.com> wrote:
> >hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:
>
>
> >> 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?
>
> This is getting bizarre.
>
> Yep,those worked.
>
> Then I went back to fox, and the baghdad camera still didn't work. Then
> I chose their video feeds, chose options, and it didn't worked.
> Switched to realplayer, and it denied knowing about that plugin.
> Switched back, and now not only do the windows format ones work, but so
> does the baghdad cam (not that it's interesting; it just seemed an easy
> test :)
>
> However, if I close the window, it causes mplayer to crash (error 6 on
> flippage or some such), in turn bringing down mozilla.
>
> But it's progress :)

Yeah, I get the crashes too. I have also noticed something similar about
some sites not working till after I visit other sites that I know work,
but I've never cared enough to narrow it down :-)

Adam