On Sat, 13 May 2006 11:35:23 -0400
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to play videos from sites in Mozilla using the
> mozilla-mplayer plugin. As an example, CNN site's videos do not play.
> On the other hand, I can play all the vidoes in Google Video and
> UTube. I am wondering, is the problem with the remote web site or is
> it my Debian Etch? Is someone else able to play videos from CNN's
> website?
>
> On CNN's website (not a huge fan of CNN btw), a new window opens and
> mplayer plugin starts and gives messages regarding 'download' etc, and
> then it just stops and does nothing. No controls are shown. Only
> "Connected" is shown at the top where the mplayer messages appear.
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Sounds like the problem (and workaround) described here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360916
It does. So I did "touch ~/.mplayer/default.sub" and it _improved_ my ability to watch Daily Show videos at comedycentral.com. Now, I guess, my problems are with buffering and bandwidth, becuase they still don't play through - but at least they start!
Patrick
