[MPlayer-users] MPlayerplug-in loads, but doesn't play in Firefox

[Jiang Qian]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:20:42PM -0800, Ron Pepper wrote:
> Movie trailers don't play in Firefox. I have mPlayer installed and it plays
> DVDs etc without problem. I also installed the mPlayerplug-in but when I try
> to play a movie trailer, the embedded plug-in window opens and loads the
> trailer finally showing 99% loaded, but it never plays the trailer. I also
> loaded various codecs including /usr/lib/codecs/QuickTimeEssentials.qtx. My
> system is Fedora Core-3. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Thanks.
Can you take a look at the html source and download the movie directly 
then try to do 
mplayer -v name-of-the-movie.mov
and see whether it plays? It at least will show whether it's your 
mplayer or your mplayerplug-in is at fault.
Jiang
> 
> Ron
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