mplayerplug-in not working in firefox

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 13:24:28 UTC 2005


I have only tried it with the trailers on Apple's site, and they have
all played inline fine.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:13:02 -0500, Brian Pack <darkaudit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 06:54 am, Jon Dixon wrote:
> > I tend to use mozplugger for this, and have not had an issue.
> >
> > I'm running Hoary Dev though.
> >
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:29:58 -0500, Brian Pack <darkaudit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 12:13 am, Steve Wingate wrote:
> > > > Whenever I try to view a video in Firefox on 4.10 mplayerplug-in
> > > > buffers to 99% then stops; the video never actually plays. Anyone else
> > > > seen this issue?
> > >
> > > On a few occasions the video doesn't play, but the 99% happens every
> > > time. If the clip has enough space at the end, it's not an issue, but
> > > more often the clip gets cut off at the end.
> 
> Same here. I still end up preferring the mplayer plugin, because it appears to
> be the best at playing inline video clips, instead of spawning an extra
> player. A good example is this page:
> http://www.kingoftheroad.net/colorTV/cbs_logo.html
> 
> It still only goes to 99%, but the video plays in full, and stays in the page.
> 
> 
> 


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