I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic:
Using private color-map Bad MPEG? Giving up. Try mpeg_stat -verify to see if the stream is valid. I cannot find a command "mpeg_stat". I was able to run "mpeg_play" from an xterm on an FTPed test mpeg. What is a "private color-map"? I have had other netscape proglems, such as the intermittent death by "bus error" and a creeping and increasing slowness over hours of time, in the responsiveness of only the netscape window to mouseclicks. A problem I had earlier has persisted, but is only an irritation: often netscape won't boot up. If I try again to start it from an xterm, it might or might not boot on a second try. In this case, a message is recieved about a lock file, but that while netscape might run, cache will not be able to be used, etc. if the lock file isn't removed. Then if I just say, ok, netscape, once again, might not, or might start. I tried 24bpp, 32bpp, 16bpp, with no difference. (Did not affect the mpeg player either). Sometimes I can get netscape to start with the -iconic switch. It's more or less random, as far as I can tell. Sometimes it will start on the third try. Once, amazingly, a netscape process was running, but wasn't showing up, when I quit X. For a split second the outline of the netscape window appeared! Another thing: when I try to access a site with a live midi background feed, netscape dies with the mysterious "bus error". I haven't been able to get my Yamaha Asound (OPL3-2A) sound card configured yet for midi, but this happened before I installed a sound card at all. Sorry to ramble on so long. I think these problems are related? I would appreciate any advice. And I do appreciate the excellent advice I have received many times over this mailing list. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .