Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] manual cache loads
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Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] manual cache loads
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From: Kevin D. <kde...@ya...> - 2005-10-15 06:48:21
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 raid517 wrote: > Yeah but wait a minute, I _know_ I'm not crazy. I have 4 seperate PC's, > all running different recent distros with the latest version of Mplayer > and Mplayer plug in - and they ALL have the same problems I described. I > mean seriously, in all honesty hand on heart which of you guys out there > can go to the Apple site and watch all their HD trailers with no > difficulty at all, with them all being correctly scaled - and with > buffering working properly (as in not needing to download the whole > movie before playing it)? Because if you say you can I just don't buy it. Increase your cache size. I have mine normally set to 1MB and had trouble with the new 480p Harry Potter Trailer 2. I raised the cache to 4096 (done via right click->configure) and reloaded the page (this is important) and I was able to watch the trailer all the way thru on my cable line. > > Having said that I do appreciate the work of the developers and I do > hope that they can figure things like this out. Apple just redid their website... > > But from where I'm standing it's just not credible to say there are no > issues with content on sites like this. Even some of the pages linking > to the movie sites don't render correctly, particularly when Mplayer > plug in decides it is going to take up 3/4 of your screen with a big > unpretty grey box - and then still not play anything. > > GJ Send a patch... the project is pretty much 1 guy doing it all. And doing it in his spare time which right now he does not have a whole lot of. > > Colin Regan wrote: > >> sorry my last email went out kind of funny like text was missing and >> stuff very odd havent had that happen before here it is as it should be >> ---------------------------------- >> Rough around the edges is right. Most of the trailers play fine for >> me (i have the latest cvs too) and i havent had any of the problems >> that you are having... (xv and esd as my options passed to mplayer) >> generally everything seems pretty stable. The biggest problem is that >> mplayer stops playback when the mplayer window covers the >> mplayerplug-in... you can get around this by minimizing your browser >> >> It would be nice if mplayerplugin was able to distinguish the >> placeholder files from the actual quicktime content this would get >> around the issue of caching the wrong videos... >> >> The only qt trailer i am having problems with is the Jarhead trailer >> (the only one i really want to see in HD of course) which plays fine >> except for sound. Something wrong with the FAAD2 codec in mplayer or >> mplayers handling of the audio stream. Btw have you been able to >> access the mplayer website lately? >> You must not have the current version... 3.11 handles those sites correctly. >> >> On 10/14/05, *Colin Regan* <cr...@gm... >> <mailto:cr...@gm...>> wrote: >> >> Rough around the edges is right. Most of the trailers play fine >> for me (i have the latest cvs too) and i havent had any of the >> problems that you are having... (xv and esd as my options passed >> to mplayer) generally everything seems pretty stable. The biggest >> problem is that mplayer stops playback when the mplayer window >> covers it... you can get around this by minimizing your browser >> the playback but your unable to get any fullscreen controls at >> this point... but thats all. It would be nice if mplayer was able >> to distinguish the placeholder files from the actual quicktime >> content. It does in 3.11 >> The only qt trailer i am having problems with is the Jarhead >> trailer (the only one i really want to see in HD of course) which >> plays fine except for sound. Something wrong with the FAAD2 codec >> in mplayer or mplayers handling of the audio stream. Btw have you >> been able to access the mplayer website lately? >> >> c. >> Those Apple sites are completely different than any video around and mplayerplug-in was not really designed to work the way they are doing things... It would take a lot and I mean a LOT of work to get this to work the way you want it to. >> >> >> On 10/15/05, *raid517* <ra...@uk... >> <mailto:ra...@uk...>> wrote: >> >> Mplayer Plugin seems to have a lot of trouble in general with >> the high >> definition trailers on Apple's site. (I have the latest CVS of >> Mplayer >> installed, so I should be able to watch them). Some play, some >> don't. >> Some play in only half the window size when they are supposed >> to be >> fuull screen, some quit playing half way through. Those that >> do play >> need to download what seems like the entire trailer before >> they can >> begin playing, while others download the whole movie and then >> refuse to >> play at all. (BTW this isn't mplayer's fault as I can download >> them and >> watch them no problem with Mplayer on my desktop). >> >> All in all it seems a tad rough around the edges. >> >> GJ >> >> Colin Regan wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Would it be possible to set an option that prevents the cache >> >> from >> >>> being automatically loaded when page loads? With the new >> >> Quicktime HD >> >>> trailers there are 3 different sizes which 3 different >>> mplayerplug-in's are initiated for. It would greatly >> >> decrease the >> >>> time that it takes for the trailer one wants to load. >>> >>> Thanks >> Upgrade to the current version. Kevin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDUKYpaR60qN0tF+8RAv7EAJ4nv+WuSJ/uQgvjuEs8Gv/oh+bzqACgyrYE kW93YoLLA4TLybQDSxpt2is= =sL2u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |