On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:07:34AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 03:46 -0700, Drucer Ninetynine wrote: > > --- Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I'll try it but the mplayer plugin doesn't work > > > reliably for me either. > > > About 75% of the time it buffers then just sits > > > there with a grey box > > > and never plays. Occasionally it works if I hit > > > "play" but most of the > > > time I have to resort to right clicking and "copy > > > URL", then run > > > "gmplayer $URL" in a terminal which works *every > > > time*. > > > > > > It looks like you're lacking some MPlayer codecs. Care > > to share one URL that does not work with it? I have > > near 100% success with MPlayer plug-in. > > Nope, it can't be missing codecs because I have 100% success with > "gmplayer $URL" in a terminal. It's a buggy interaction between the > browser and the plugin. I've observed the same thing, FWIW. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
