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battra

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From: Earth.US.Illinois.Chicago

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 71

watching CNN and Yahoo videos with mplayer-plugin [SOLVED]

I had a hell of a time trying to view CNN videos (http://www.cnn.com) and Yahoo videos with mplayer-plugin (firefox) and didn't seem to find any solutions in a forum search.

The following worked for me:

To get it working at all, I had to edit /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf and add/edit the following options:

noembed=1

To get smooth video and sound without choppy playback, I had to add/edit the following options to /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf:

cachesize = 1024

These value for cachesize will obviously vary depending on your internet connection.  But, with my DSL/broadband connection, the default cachesize of 512 was for some reason resulting in *very* choppy playback.  The cachsize of 1024 fixed everything. 

I can now view CNN and Yahoo videos with no problem.

Just thought I'd share if anyone is having similar problems.

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: watching CNN and Yahoo videos with mplayer-plugin [SOLVED]

Thanks

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