On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 19:05, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Temlakos wrote: > > Everyone: > > > > Mplayer has a problem with Windows Media ".wmv" files and, for that > > matter, QuickTime ".mov" files. Mozilla's plugin for those files gives > > me sound, but no picture. I can play MPEG's and .asf files without a > > problem--picture and sound--and I also can play any commercial DVD > > (though mplayer doesn't let me see the interactive menu, but just lets > > me select the title and chapter by the numbers). A lot of Web sites out > > there offer streaming video in the ".wmv" format, and it's a little > > annoying to get them with sound, but no picture. (I also installed > > RealPlayer 10, and that plays videos without a problem.) > > > > I'll take any suggestion I can get. > > > > Temlakos > > I've got just the opposite behavior. When I point my browser to this url > to see the Blade: Trinity trailer I get the video but no sound with > mplayer in mozilla: > > http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/blade_trinity/trailer/ > > I suspect it's a codec problem, but oddly Mandrake 10 doesn't suffer the > same problem. And when I tried to watch one of those trailers, I got neither picture nor sound! It reshaped the frame to go along with the wide-screen aspect ratio, and completed its buffering, and then...nothing. Temlakos
