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

[Ron Pepper]

On 11/10/05, Jiang Qian <qian2 at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> > > It seems like your video output is at fault. You're running xwindows
> > > I
> > > gather. Maybe try
> > > mplayer -vo xv your_video.mov
> > > or if that doesn't work
> > > mplayer -vo x11 your_video.mov
> > > Also it would help if you post a direct link from where you download
> > > your clip so that others can download it themselves and try it out.
> > > Jiang
> >
> >
> > Both of the above commands work fine and mPlayer successfully plays the
> > movie clip. Now how do I get the Firefox plug-in to work? Thanks,
> add the line to file
> /etc/mplayerplugin.conf
> or
> $HOME/.mozilla/mplayerplug-in.conf
> or
> $HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf
> vo=xv,x11
> why did you want to use other things in the first place. I suspect xv
> is almost always the fastest for mplayer. If you want mplayer to always
> use it first add to the following line to
> $HOME/.mplayer/config
> vo=xv,x11



Had to pause for some family matters. OK, that worked! Thanks very much for
your help.

Ron