Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] a couple of questions...

[Kevin D. <kde...@ya...>]

On Monday 05 September 2005 04:43 am, oksijun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 (related) issues concerning mplayerplug-in:
>
> 1. Galeon, the browser I am using, crashes when I watch a video with
> mplayerplug-in in a webpage, click 'back' and then click on a link to a
> video that is not associated with mplayerplug-in (wmv, usually). I then
> get an 'open with' dialog box, which offers to open the video with
> gxine or totem or whatever I happen to have installed that will play
> the video. Upon clicking open, the helper application runs fine, but
> galeon is left in a frozen state, and must be killed. This does not
> happen when I do not first watch a video with mplayerplug-in.
>

Unable to duplicate on a Fedora Core 3 system using the CVS version of=20
mplayerplug-in. I tested with both Firefox and galeon and did not see the=20
problem in either browser.

> 2. mplayerplug-in does not play all windows media streams. I think this
> is not so much a bug as some incorrect mime-type setting on the server,
> but insofar as it produces the 'open with' dialog, it is helping to
> cause the problem described above.

Nope it is an incorrect setting on the webserver

wget http://www.uwo.ca/hfs/cs/Essex176X132X6.wmv
=2D-09:27:08--  http://www.uwo.ca/hfs/cs/Essex176X132X6.wmv
           =3D> `Essex176X132X6.wmv'
Resolving www.uwo.ca... 129.100.0.39
Connecting to www.uwo.ca[129.100.0.39]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 158,624 [text/plain]

Notice the mimetype of [text/plain], this is incorrect and there is nothing=
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the plugin can do about this. This is a very common configuration issue on=
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many websites.


>
> So, to make a long story short, I would like to know if it is possible
> to force mplayerplug-in to handle all streams (in this case, windows
> media), independently of the mime-type the web server is sending, and
> also why mplayerplug-in, after having been run, leaves galeon in a
> state where it will crash upon the next viewing of a windows media
> stream.

You cannot have mplayerplug-in handle all streams of type [text/plain]. It=
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would break many things.

The gdb output you sent does not give any information. Use the 'bt' command=
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from gdb and see if that has anything interesting in it.=20

Kevin
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