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MindTooth

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-11-11

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[SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Has anyone else encountered the same problem with testing enabled? Is there any way I can debug this? Since the browser just crash, and it is hard to understand the problem.

Birger

Last edited by MindTooth (2008-12-22 12:11:21)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Using the gecko-mediaplayer plugin (which is based on mplayer) I have no problems.  What are you using as a plugin?

Have you tried running it from the command line and looking for appropriate output?

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MindTooth

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Thank you. I tryed it, and it worked like a charm. Does it support all what mplayer-plugin does?

Birger

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

It should do -  they are both based on mplayer.  It would be good to figure out why mplayer plugins stopped working though.

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

borkedness factor confirmed...
$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 3.1b2, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org
$ pacman -Q mplayer-plugin
mplayer-plugin 3.55-1

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Please file a bug report about this.

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Please file a bug report about this.

MindTooth: your thread, your duty
I'll do it over the week-end if you didn't in the meantime.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Thank you. I tryed it, and it worked like a charm. Does it support all what mplayer-plugin does?

Birger

It's the soon-to-be replacement for mplayer-plugin. I haven't run into any sites yet that it doesn't work with assuming Mplayer has a plug-in to handle the stream.

MindTooth

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-11-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

My question is why mplayer still is in use. Over a year since latest RC release. Can't we use GStreamer, Totem, or whatever?

Can I spare the bug report? Just enjoyed the working plugin. Going to add it to the wiki now.

Birger

xaiviax

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 282

Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

My question is why mplayer still is in use. Over a year since latest RC release. Can't we use GStreamer, Totem, or whatever?

Can I spare the bug report? Just enjoyed the working plugin. Going to add it to the wiki now.

Birger

mplayer is very solid and very much still in development.  mplayer-svn is imho very stable and one of the elite linux apps.  Their development team has just taken a path of concentrating on the svn and not worrying about an "official" new release.

MindTooth

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Re: [SOLVED] Testing with mplayer breaks Apple Trailers. (Firefox)

Okay, Thank you for explaining that.

Birger