On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Kevin DeKorte wrote: > On 10/08/09 10:39, Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote: >> Markus Senoner pisze: >>> Firefox on Ubuntu shows Videos in a Window, which initially has a >>> white background, before video-playback starts 1 or 2 seconds later. >>> >>> I need to: >>> - change that background-color to back I found out, that the background-color used by the gecko-mediaplayer plugin comes from the Gnome User-interface. That really should be settable in some config-file, as I don't want to change my desktop-theme. >>> - avoid the delay of 2 seconds before video plays I'm using a slow pc, and observe 2 delays: - first the Gnome-Desktop-color is shown 2 seconds - then a black background is shown several seconds on larger videos before playback starts Adding "cachesize=0" or "nocache=1" in ~/.mplayer/config had no effect on video-startup - did I miss something? >>> - I see Firefox places a copy of the video in /tmp (e.g. >>> /tmp/geckoG842Vl) each time a page with a video is shown. >>> How can I avoid this copying? >> >> So move your "/tmp" to the RAM ( use TMPFS filesystem ) to save your >> flash-drive from worn-out by massive save cycles. I'll try that. But does this also speed up the start of the video? > Based on the temp filename, I'm guessing gecko-mediaplayer.. Might try > upgrading to a recent version, I can tell from the filename that it is > old, since cache files are now stored in ~/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin. > And then adjust the cache settings in gnome-mplayer. Yes Kevin, we use gecko-mediaplayer - sorry I didn't mention that. We are using Ubuntu 8.04.2 and need everything to be very stable, as the pc showing the videos in a browser-frame should run unattended for days! Which is the most recent stable version? > Ask followup questions to on the gecko-mediaplayer mailing list. > http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer I'll subscribe ... thanks, Markus --
