On Sat September 9 2006 8:20 am, Claude Jones wrote: > I've theorized about different packaging of > mplayer/mplayerplug-in being the culprit, and have tried both > the Livna, the ones from the mplayerplug-in website, and one's > from Blag. Ironically, I footnote the point made above, by an experience I had just after sending that post. I tried a CNN video at that moment, and it completely stalled after opening the player window; all the flash stuff appeared, the messages about accessing the file appeared, it appeared to connect and the play window turned black as if it was going to play - then, nothing... When I tried to close the window, Firefox completely closed down. I checked my updates moments later after repeating this behavior a second time. I had mplayer locked (I use Smart which allows you to lock packages from being updated), but there was a Livna package available. I unlocked mplayer and installed the latest Livna package. After a reboot for other reasons, the same CNN file played almost immediately. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
