[MPlayer-users] mplayer used as firefox plugin

[antoine]

antoine wrote:

> Kevin DeKorte wrote:
>
>> I would recommend
>>
>> http://mplayerplug-in.sf.net
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> --- Karol Pluciennik <troloo at zamoyski.edu.pl> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi, I have Fedora Core 2 installed with newest
>>> version of firefox (0.9) and mplayer. Does anyone know any quick 
>>> path for
>>> installing mplayer as firefox plugin? I would really like to watch real
>>> media and quicktime files under my browser. Sometimes it is almost
>>> impossible to get clean address of *.ram or *mov file from a website 
>>> and it
>>> would be much better not to worry about it.
>>>   
>>
> hi,
> This is related, if not exactly... (it's only a partial hijack!).
> I tried to get this going on 1.0pre4 (gentoo ebuild), and found that I 
> just got about 200 instances of mplayer that completely bogged down 
> the system. Using mozilla 1.6, various mplayerplug-in's (0.91-2.6), 
> and the said mplayers. I then upgraded to the latest ebuild, 
> 1.0pre4r4, and no longer got these multiple instances, but no matter 
> what I try I can't get video.
>
> antt at rux antt $ mplayer -cache 8196 -playlist 
> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/av/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asx 
>
> MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 2052 MHz 
> (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> MMX supported but disabled
> MMX2 supported but disabled
> SSE supported but disabled
> 3DNow supported but disabled
> 3DNowExt supported but disabled
> CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compilé pour CPU x86 avec les extensions:
>
> Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> Reading config file /home/antt/.mplayer/config
> Resolving www.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server www.nationalgeographic.com[207.24.89.160]:80 ...
> Cache size set to 8196 KBytes
> Connecté au serveur: www.nationalgeographic.com
> Reading /home/antt/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
> '/home/antt/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
> font: can't open file: /home/antt/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (/dev/rtc should be 
> readable by the user.)
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file /home/antt/.mplayer/input.conf: No such 
> file or directory
> Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
>
> Joue 
> mms://fjord.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asf 
>
> Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server fjord.nationalgeographic.com[207.24.90.73]:80 ...
> Stream bitrate properties object
> Max bandwidth set to 0
> Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server fjord.nationalgeographic.com[207.24.90.73]:80 ...
> Cache size set to 8196 KBytes
> Connecté au serveur: fjord.nationalgeographic.com
> Cache fill: 19.91% (1671168 bytes)    Fichier de type ASF détecté.
> ASF: Aucun flux vidéo trouvé.
> Information sur le clip:
> name: Florida Center Provides Refuge For Working Chimps
> copyright: © 2004 National Geographic Channel Presents
> comments: Chimpanzees used in research, circuses and as pets get a 
> well deserved rest at the Center for Captive Chimp Care.
> ========================================================================== 
>
> Ouverture du décodeur audio: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 3995->176400 (32.0 kbit)
> Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
> ========================================================================== 
>
> Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
> AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
> Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
> Vidéo: pas de vidéo
> Démarre la lecture...
> A:        15.8  0.9% 0%
>
> So I get the sound but no video. It appears to work just dandy using 
> winsucks. I have the win32 codecs installed, and pretty much 
> everything else I could think of.
> Any ideas?
> Cheers
> Antoine

update... I have downloaded some wmv and asf files and the run fine - so 
it is a problem only with streaming media...
Cheers
Antoine