On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:51:24 -0600, Kenny Gow wrote: > Tanguy Eric wrote: >> >> I have the same problem : viewing these videos with mplayer-plugin in >> firefox leads to see connected or connecting to the server ... but no >> videos. If i right click to the mplayer-plugin window and copy the url i >> can go to a terminal and launch mplayer and copy the url and i can view >> the video without any problem so i think the problem is related to the >> mplayer-plugin. > > I just remembered how I got around this same problem. > > If you uncomment and set noembed=1 in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf > CNN videos will play in a separate window. I prefer this way > actually. > > I got the mplayerplug-in from the Livna repository. If you > installed it from some other repo or from source, your > mplayerplug-in.conf may be in a different location. > > Regards, > Kenny > This is interesting, and good to know. And puzzling too, as for many users mplayer does play the cnn videos within firefox. I wonder if debug=1 might show something.
