#111 plugin won't play certain videos

[Anonymous]

I've been having trouble getting the mplayer plugin to
play videos from the comedy central website lately.
First, here's my setup:

FC5 with:
firefox 1.5.0.6
mplayer-1.0-0.45.pre8
mplayerplug-in-3.25-1
essential-20060611 codecs

Now, here's the URL of a video I am having trouble with:

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=72759

The plugin window keeps looping the following messages:

Connecting to server <servername>
Buffering http://<url>
Playing mms://<url>

The video will not play. However, I can right-click
and do a "get URL" from the plugin to obtain:

mms://a1768.v9950c.c9950.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1768/9950/v001/comedystor.download.akamai.com/9951/_!/com/colbert/2101_seat.wmv?auth=caEdCbtdFcHa4b6cYcmcAcjc6cyaDaVcbcf-be29zQ-dHa-DDNzoE&aifp=mtvn_02

I can run mplayer directly from the command line using
this URL (single quoted) and it works just fine.

Any ideas why this doesn't work with the mplayer
plugin? Is there a way I can get additional debug
information?

email contact: noky (at) noky (dot) net

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Upgrade to 3.30 and this will be fixed.

Depending on how your mplayer is compiled you may have to add

nortc=1
nolirc=1

to ~/.mplayer/config

This is a known bug in 3.30 and will be fixed in the next
release.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I'm the original poster... I followed your suggestion and
upgraded from 3.25 to 3.30. I also added those two lines to
the config file.

However, the video still will not play. The plugin screen
still keeps cycling text which indicates: Connecting,
Buffering, Playing...

[Kevin DeKorte]

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ok, then...

Well set "debug=1" in the mplayerplug-in.conf file and then
run your browser from a terminal. You should get a ton of
information as to what is going on. Post that and it should
be pretty easy to fix.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The debug feature does not seem to work! I added debug=1 to
~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf, then started firefox from
the command line. Nothing appeared on stdout when
mplayerplug-in started. I also modified
/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf (~/.mozilla/mplayerplug-in.conf
does not exist for me). I even logged out of my gnome
session and logged back in. Still, no debug output

Is there a logfile or something that it is writing to?

[Kevin DeKorte]

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You might need to apply this patch to the firefox startup
script...

diff -u /usr/bin/firefox bin/firefox-out
--- /usr/bin/firefox 2006-08-08 14:29:24.000000000 -0600
+++ bin/firefox-out 2006-08-11 13:34:49.000000000 -0600
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
# if there's no command line argument and there's not a running
# instance then just fire up a new copy of the browser
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
- exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZARGS 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
+ exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZARGS
fi

[noky]

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OK, I've got a dump of the mplayplug-in output, but I can't
seem to attache a file. I even created a sourceforge
account... Does the bug status need to be "open" in order
to create attachments for a bug?

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Maybe... I opened it back up...

[noky]

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I could not attach a file to this bug report! Maybe because
I originally posted anonymously. I don't know. The only
was I was able to attach a file with debug info was to open
a new bug report. See 1540697