mplayerplug-in doesn't play, just STOPs [SOLVED]

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cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:58 pm

Hi,
I have installed mplayerplug-in latest version from portage. From firefox it gets launched properly. It reads the mms:// urls also. However, after that it just sits there doing nothing. The status inside that grey box says "stopped". Even after I select play after rightclicking on it, it does nothing.

What can be the problem. Firefox version is 1.5 (compiled not binary), and mplayerplug-in version is 3.15.

Thanks.

--cyberjun

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:05 pm

maybe enable or disable caching - some streams cause probs when caching is disabled, some the other way round

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:12 pm

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion, but have tried that. Here is my .mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf file:

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vo=xv,x11
ao=alsa
cachesize=204
cache-percent=2
dload-dir=/home/halios
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=0
enable-gmp=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=1
rtsp-use-tcp=1
debug=1
logfile=/home/halios/.mplayer/mpp.log
noembed=1

any other clues? Its quite bothersome.

--cyberjun

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:22 pm

and 'nomediacache=0' doesn't help? weird stuff.. what's the url of that stream you're trying? or is that on any stream?

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:31 pm

Hi,
Well for example: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/theproducers.html

On this page when I click on "Exclusive clip: I want that money", a window opens, then mplayer plugin appears, it says buffering etc. and when it should play the video, it just says stopped.

--cyberjun

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:39 pm

no problem here. same versions as yours... well, i use binary firefox installed in ~/bin - but that should make no difference

my ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf:

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vo=xv
ao=alsa
cachesize=512
cache-percent=10
dload-dir=/home/tom
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
rtsp-use-tcp=0

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:57 am

what are the USE flags you have enabled. I was having an awful time with getting mplayerplug-in to play wmv.

You should also have emerged the win32codecs package before compiling mplayer and mplayerplug-in.

You should definetely have win32codecs as a USE flag. Then emerge win32codecs package and the remerge both mplayer and mplayerplug-in.

You should probably also have the nsplugin.

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:14 am

Hi,
Here are the USE flag details:

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localhost ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv mplayer

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-misc/lirc-0.7.2  +X -debug -doc 484 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1  -3dfx +3dnow +3dnowext +X -aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts* -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga +directfb -doc +dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode +esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 +ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg +libcaca +lirc* -live -livecd -lzo +mad +matroska* -matrox +mmx +mmxext -mythtv -nas +nls +nvidia +opengl -oss* +png +real -rtc +samba +sdl +sse -sse2 +svga -tga +theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 7,621 kB

Total size of downloads: 8,105 kB
localhost ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv mplayerplug-in

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.15  -gecko-sdk +gtk 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

The funny thing is that if I provide the URL directly to mplayer on cmdline, it starts playing fine.

I am soooo lost!!!

--cyberjun

jedsen · Post by **jedsen** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:00 am

This is probably not your problem, but when this was happening to me it was because my audio device was in use. Check to amke sure yours isn't.

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:47 am

Hi,
The audio device is available. Also I can play multiple sounds as I have dmix enabled.

more clues?????

thanks

--cyberjun

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:17 pm

so mplayer will play the URL fine and mplayer will also play wmv fine for you? If this is the case then what does

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about:plugins

tell you in firefox. It seems like this may be a firefox problem I've heard that if you have the adblocker enabled in firefox that it can interfere with plugins. If you do try disabling it and also post your about:plugins stuff.

besides that I'm lost too...sorry.

Mongrol · Post by **Mongrol** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:17 pm

I had this problem a month or so ago and I fixed it but can't remember how. Now it's came back (possibly after a firefox or mplayer compile) and it's got me baffled yet again.

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:13 am

Hi,
Nice to see that somebody else also saw this. Please help me out. Don't have any clue. Its not firefox problem as the behavior is same with mozilla lastest stable version. I have tried both with firefox and firefox-bin. No idea whats up.

thanks

--cyberjun

dustfinger · Post by **dustfinger** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:40 am

I have exactly this same problem. I noticed that when I right click on the embeded mplayer and selected "configure" I have nothing set in the "Video Output" field. The options I have for this field from the drop down are: gl, x11, xv. Weird. I also had nothing in the "audio output" field, so I selected alsa. I checked my about:plugins and everything looks good. I wonder if the "Video Output" field is the problem? I tried just typing in mplayer, but that did not solve anything.

-- EDIT #1 --
One thing that gets me is that Edit --> Preferences --> Downloads shows nothing in the plugins section. Shouldn't it show the mplayerplug-in etc? about:plugins shows lots of plugins enabled.
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-- EDIT #2 ---
editing .mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf
vo=gl
ao=arts
gave me video, but no audio. I use alsa for sound so i did not expect any audio, however when I set ao=alsa I get nothing at all. I have also tried vo=xv and vo=x11. I don't even know why xv is an option? It is just a static image viewer is it not? Also what is gl? I don't even seem to have a program called gl.
----------------
dustfinger.

cyberjun · Post by **cyberjun** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:42 pm

Hi,
Finally solved!!!.

Tips:

* If mplayer is not compiled with "live" use flag, then set rtsp-use-tcp=0. My mistake was that I had set this option to 1 and mplayed lacked "live" support.

* Best would be to compile mplayer with "live" use flag and then set rtsp-use-tcp=1.

* Upgrade to the latest mplayerplug-in (3.17)

* My .mplayer/mplayerpulg-in.conf

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cachesize=512
cachepercent=25
autostart=1
vo=xv,x11
ao=alsa
noembed=0
flieonly-embed=1
nopauseonhide=1
osdlevel=1
rtsp-use-tcp=1
showlogo=1
shotime=1
hidestatus=0
dload-dir=/tmp
keep-download=0
cookies=1
noconsolecontrols=1
nomousecontrols=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-helix=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=0
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1

I should have visited the mplayerplug-in homepage much earlier!!!

cheers,
--cyberjun

ryan83vt · Post by **ryan83vt** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:14 pm

I compiled mplayer with "live" support and even used the sample mplayerplugin config file. I also recompiled mplayerplug-in. I still have the same problem. Is this really all you did to fix it? Could you point me to the location on the mplayer page that mentions this? I looked around and read the FAQ's but didn't find it.

vandalman · Post by **vandalman** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:17 am

I'm having simlar problems, it appears to load and then stops with "stopped"

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[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060415  -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga +directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode -esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox +mmx -mmxext -musepack -nas +nvidia -openal +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc -samba +sdl -sse -sse2 +svga -tga -theora +truetype +unicode -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs -x264 -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 217 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.21  -gecko-sdk +gtk 0 kB

babytuey · Post by **babytuey** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:15 am

I had the same problem after a firefox upgrade. This thread solved it for me

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-45 ... lugin.html

do

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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub

vandalman · Post by **vandalman** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:22 pm

I get video to work now, but no audio. Alsa is setup correctly and works for regular mplayer. Here is my .mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf

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vo=gl
ao=alsa
cachesize=512
cache-percent=25
dload-dir=/home/dude/
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-midi=0
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=0
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0

Thanks!

ryan83vt · Post by **ryan83vt** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:01 pm

babytuey wrote:I had the same problem after a firefox upgrade. This thread solved it for me

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-45 ... lugin.html

do
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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub 

This worked for me. Thanks!

pava_rulez · Post by **pava_rulez** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:54 pm

ryan83vt wrote:
babytuey wrote:I had the same problem after a firefox upgrade. This thread solved it for me

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-45 ... lugin.html

do
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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub 
This worked for me. Thanks!

For me too...thanks guys!!!

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:00 pm

pava_rulez wrote:
ryan83vt wrote:
babytuey wrote:I had the same problem after a firefox upgrade. This thread solved it for me

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-45 ... lugin.html

do
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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub 
This worked for me. Thanks!
For me too...thanks guys!!! :D

sweet!

hashier · Post by **hashier** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:51 pm

And what does it do?

Worked also for me.

rafo · Post by **rafo** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:29 pm

I think I have the same problem. The audio clip that I can't play is http://www.sr.se/laddahem/ekot/nyheter/p3eko22.rm. I tried to download the clip to a directory and play it with mplayer. That also failed, and here the console output gave me a hint. After doing

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# cd /opt/RealPlayer/codecs
# ln -s sipr.so sipr.so.6.0

I could play the downloaded clip with mplayer, and it can also be played in the browser plugin. It does not matter if the empty file ~/.mplayer/default.sub which has been mentioned in this thread is present or not.

My package versions are:

seamonkey-1.0.3
realplayer-10.0.7
mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1
mplayerplug-in-3.30
win32codecs-20050216 (irrelevant maybe)

I am not sure where this problem belongs: Gentoo bug, or upstream bug? Opinions?