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dfodor

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Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 3

gecko wmp plugin problem

Hi,

I would have a problem which I could not solve in the last days. At last I decided to post this topic.
So the problem is that apparently embedded videos having any of the windows media formats cannot be played in firefox. Other videos are fine. I have gecko-mediaplayer but I have the same issue with Konqueror+kmplayer and firefox+totem. Control buttons appear but nothing happens. I tried to rename the plugin files by adding lib to the beginning but it did not help. The permissions of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are 755 and none of the points mentioned in Arch wiki (browser plugins) helped. about:plugins show that gecko-mediaplayer (gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so) handle the videos. Could anyone help please? Any idea?

Thank you in advance

Daniel

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: gecko wmp plugin problem

Can you provide a link where a media stream doesn't work for you, so that I can test if it is the same on my installation.
Thanks.

dfodor

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Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 3

Re: gecko wmp plugin problem

Thanks for your reply. What I would like to watch is for example on right handside of this webpage: http://www.hirado.hu/ or you can chose any of the followings from here: http://videotar.mtv.hu/

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: gecko wmp plugin problem

I have tested some of the video streams from the links you provided, and they worked on my x86_64 machine.

firefox 3.6-2
gnome-mplayer 0.9.9-2
gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.1-1         svn version
mplayer 30526-1

I had to enable the sites and also the video streams which appear in the blocked objects list, within the NoScript extension.
And click the play button to start the videos.

I got some errors :

(gnome-mplayer:5291): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion `width >= -1' failed
(gnome-mplayer:5291): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_path: assertion `iter->stamp == GTK_LIST_STORE (tree_model)->stamp' failed

But they don't prevent the streams to play with about 6% cpu usage on one core.

The content of ~/.mplayer/config is :

[default]
# Write your default config options here!
ao=alsa,

[gnome-mplayer]
msglevel=all=5
ao=alsa
vf=eq2
vo=xv

I use the svn 0.9.9.1 version of gecko-mediaplayer which will be released soon, because the actual 0.9.9 has issues which are already corrected in the svn version :
see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90652
Maybe you can test it.
I hope this helps.

dfodor

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Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 3

Re: gecko wmp plugin problem

thanks berbae, although I still cannot play streams it helped make some progress.
Before installing svn version of gecko-mediaplayer, I tried to play streams with gnome-mplayer, mplayer and vlc and not as an embedded video. When I tried to play wmv files from the above site by copying url form source of the web page gnome-mplayer and mplayer failed to connect. Apparently they were trying to establish connection but after a while they stopped. Vlc played the video but gave the following error message:

$ vlc http://streamer.carnation.hu/mtvod2/hirado/2010/02/18/hirado12_100218.wmv
VLC media player 1.0.5 Goldeneye
[0x9fed8b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
*** Unable to locate valid config! Falling back to auto-detection...
*** Unable to locate PAC! Falling back to direct...
*** Unable to locate valid config! Falling back to auto-detection...
*** Unable to locate PAC! Falling back to direct...
[0xa16e788] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[0xa16e788] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[0xa16e788] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[0xa16e788] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

When I try to play wmv with mplayer I get this:

$ mplayer http://streamer.carnation.hu/mtvod2/hirado/2010/02/18/hirado12_100218.wmv
MPlayer SVN-r30526-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
142 audio & 332 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing http://streamer.carnation.hu/mtvod2/hirado/2010/02/18/hirado12_100218.wmv.
Resolving streamer.carnation.hu for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: streamer.carnation.hu
Resolving streamer.carnation.hu for AF_INET...
Connecting to server streamer.carnation.hu[195.228.75.187]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.14% (457 bytes)   


Exiting... (End of file)

-playlist switch and changing http to mms also do not help.
So there is some connection error but vlc does not stop. I installed ubuntu in VirtualBox and tried to play streams but I get exactly the same error messages and totem/gecko/mplayer fail to work properly. Apparently it is rather a connection issue and localized to wmp files and has less to do with gecko-mediaplayer version. I tried to google but what I found did not help so far. Any idea what it could be?

Thank you in advance

Daniel

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: gecko wmp plugin problem

Apparently you have a connexion problem with the streamer.carnation.hu site.
But I don't see what it is, sorry.
I am not too experimented in network connexion problems. So I prefer not to suggest something else to you about that.
Good luck to find a solution.