Apple's trailer site crashes Firefox w/ mplayer plugin

Kalinda · 2009-02-23 06:52:02

Okay, this is beyond weird. Basically, I can go and watch a video in high quality or otherwise pretty much anywhere that isn't Apple's website... If I go there, Firefox just crashes without an error or explanation. This is pretty unfortunate since I view the bulk of my streaming video from there. I know some people had this issue before, but it effected all videos with them... This is just effecting this one site with me.

Running Firefox from the terminal is completely unhelpful as it provides no useful info.

I've got the latest versions of Firefox and mplayer plugin and am running KDEmod 4.2 with the qt-gtk-engine thing.

Anyone have a solution to this annoying little issue?

Thanks!

Preycon · 2009-02-23 07:39:48

You should try gecko-mediaplayer like the wiki says: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … dia_Player

thunderogg · 2009-02-23 08:41:19

gecko-mediaplayer has it's problems too. It doesn't work with the Swedish Radios's web radio http://www.sr.se

theringmaster · 2009-02-23 15:16:56

yeah mplayer crashes for me too

skottish · 2009-02-23 15:42:31

thunderogg wrote:

gecko-mediaplayer has it's problems too. It doesn't work with the Swedish Radios's web radio http://www.sr.se

I tested that site with gecko-mediplayer using the Windows Media option and broadband, and it works fine here. The Real Player option got stuck at 'Connecting'. I also can play any Apple trailer.

Preycon · 2009-02-23 15:49:07

skottish wrote:

thunderogg wrote:
gecko-mediaplayer has it's problems too. It doesn't work with the Swedish Radios's web radio http://www.sr.se
I tested that site with gecko-mediplayer using the Windows Media option and broadband, and it works fine here. The Real Player option got stuck at 'Connecting'. I also can play any Apple trailer.

Yup, same here !

Kalinda · 2009-03-18 02:21:45

Preycon wrote:

You should try gecko-mediaplayer like the wiki says: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … dia_Player

Yeah, I actually did that... except, it kind of looks like crap. I mean, even when I choose the large versions of trailers, the quality is absolutely awful, whereas it's actually good (near-DVD quality) for the mplayer plugin (when it works >__<). It also, annoyingly, has no controls. Is there a way to fix this?

The thing I don't get is why the mplayer plugin works on other sites but not on the Apple one. It makes it hard to troubleshoot.

Also sorry for the late reply, I didn't realize people had read this. I need to actually subscribe to this topic, lol!

skottish · 2009-03-18 03:21:16

Kalinda wrote:

Yeah, I actually did that... except, it kind of looks like crap. I mean, even when I choose the large versions of trailers, the quality is absolutely awful, whereas it's actually good (near-DVD quality) for the mplayer plugin (when it works >__<). It also, annoyingly, has no controls. Is there a way to fix this?

gecko-mediaplayer has nothing to do with the quality. Try and change the default video driver to whatever you normally use in Mplayer. And, it doesn't have the controls by default? I've always wished there was a way to hide the controls on start up with gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer.

Kalinda · 2009-03-18 04:04:06

Well.. I don't know what I did, but it works now. It actually works better than Mplayer's plugin in some ways. Also when I full screen the controls hide themselves.

However, I've only got one problem: If I go into full screen and then exit from it, the whole box where the video is turns grey and won't come back. I assume this is a bug... I just hope it doesn't originate from my using of the gtk-qt engine for KDE 4.

skottish · 2009-03-18 04:34:52

I haven't seen that bug, so it may be your theme, or it may be something with KDE.

Kalinda · 2009-03-18 04:47:05

Maybe. It's not a big deal, since I can mostly watch HD trailers now (they aren't skippy like with Mplayer) and it doesn't screw up with them. I guess it's something to do with embedding.

Thanks, though.

skottish · 2009-03-18 04:59:23

You can disable player embedding with gecko-mediaplayer. If you don't mind floating windows whenever you hit a video site, that may be an option.

VuDu · 2009-04-09 12:46:51

I have the same problem...

[13:46:30][vudu@vudumachine Desktop]$ yaourt -Qi mplayer-plugin
Name           : mplayer-plugin
Version        : 3.55-1
URL            : http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
Licenses       : GPL  
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gtk2>=2.12.10  mozilla-common>=1.2  mplayer  libxpm  
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 2157.91 K
Packager       : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Architecture   : x86_64
Build Date     : Sun 29 Jun 2008 10:25:23 PM WEST
Install Date   : Wed 04 Mar 2009 01:01:31 PM WET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description    : mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play
                 videos from websites.

[13:46:54][vudu@vudumachine Desktop]$

and it happens on any browser (firefox, epiphany or midori), well... opera doesn't crash but I see the new pop-up window showing and disappearing very quickly.
Anyone knows why or has a fix that doesn't imply using a different player?

Last edited by VuDu (2009-04-09 12:47:18)

Allan · 2009-04-09 12:49:25

Has anyone ever filed a bug about this?

VuDu · 2009-04-09 13:14:09

Doesn't seem so...
Shall we wait for the user that started the thread?

kensai · 2009-04-09 13:42:22

VuDu wrote:

Doesn't seem so...
Shall we wait for the user that started the thread?

Not necessarily, if all people wait, then maybe the bug will never be filed.

VuDu · 2009-04-09 14:14:13

Sir, yes SIR!
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14155

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