On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 15:09 -0500, Kenny Gow wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I had the same problem going as well, and it was specifically with the > > latest Livna and Sourceforge RPMs to boot. I later found that versions > > of mplayerplug-in after version 3.25 fail with the exact behavior > > mentioned (at least the ones I tried). > > > > Eventually, I rolled back to Tomas Chung's verion - > > mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.fc5 - that is referred to by Stanley Finton's > > site. This one seems to work reliably. > > > > I assume from this that there is a bug in the newer versions that CNN > > can't handle (other sites are apparently OK) that is most likely in the > > upstream Sourceforge code. > > I always put "noembed=1" in my mplayerplug-in.conf file so the video > plays in a separate window. I just tried mplayerplug-in version 3.31 > compiled from source and it worked. > > But, when I commented out "noembed=1" to have it play in the same > window it did not work. Go figure. I just confirmed the same with the binary RPMs. Version 3.31 from Sourceforge works only with the noembed=1 feature set. Interestingly enough, I also verified that Livna's version 3.25-1 also does not work correctly and exhibits the same behavior as Sourceforge's 3.31. I then rolled back to Tomas Chung's version 3.25 and verified that it works with noembed=0 set and plays within the same window. I had to watch the CNN playback of the Space Shuttle launch a few times in doing this, but that's OK... :) I don't understand what the issue could be, but perhaps someone with higher knowledge than I can find it. By the way, I meant to say Stanton Finley (http://www.stanton-finley.net) before. I don't know what came over me to mix that one up... Cheers, Chris -- ====================== "Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide." -- Woodrow Wilson
