[linux-audio-user] Solved: flash movie buffering problems

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:07:34AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 03:46 -0700, Drucer Ninetynine wrote:
> > --- Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'll try it but the mplayer plugin doesn't work
> > > reliably for me either.
> > > About 75% of the time it buffers then just sits
> > > there with a grey box
> > > and never plays.  Occasionally it works if I hit
> > > "play" but most of the
> > > time I have to resort to right clicking and "copy
> > > URL", then run
> > > "gmplayer $URL" in a terminal which works *every
> > > time*.
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like you're lacking some MPlayer codecs. Care
> > to share one URL that does not work with it? I have
> > near 100% success with MPlayer plug-in.
> 
> Nope, it can't be missing codecs because I have 100% success with
> "gmplayer $URL" in a terminal.  It's a buggy interaction between the
> browser and the plugin.

I've observed the same thing, FWIW.

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