Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a very old FAQ, and if so, my apologies. > > For several months now, I have been unable to watch video streams > from most sites (including e.g. cnn.com) using mozilla/firefox + > mozilla-mplayer. The stream seems to connect, plays for about 1/3 > of a second, then stops, then starts all over again, does the same > thing. > > Youtube and Google video are o.k., but most other sites are not. > > I had been expecting that the problem would cure itself through > Sid dist-upgrades, but so far it has not. > > Is this a known symptom? Is there a cure? > > dpkg -l|grep mplayer says > > ii mozilla-mplayer 3.31-1 > ii mplayer 1.0-pre8cvs20061002-0.0 > > ii mplayer-doc 1.0-pre8cvs20061002-0.0 > ii mplayer-skin-blue 1.5-0.5 > ii mplayer-vidix-radeon 1.0-1 > > ii xmms-xmmplayer 0.3.3-1 > > Regards, Jan Hi Jan, I'm using firefox 2.0 on a Debian Etch box. I tested the cnn site you mentioned and watched a couple of videos there with no problem. The site complainde that I didn't have the latest version of the WMP but allowed me to carry on anyway. Then the videos came up with no problem and played to completion normally. I'm using the 3.31. You might want to check your about:plugins in your firefox browser. (Just enter that in the address band) and you should see an entry like this: Windows Media Player Plugin
File name: mplayerplug-in-wmp.so mplayerplug-in 3.31 If you don't your .so file(s) is not in the right location. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]