Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] Mplayer Stops

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

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Excellent!

raid517 wrote:
> Progress at last! I can now play all videos, including Apple HD content.
> It turns out that there were some plugins from an older version of
> Mplayer Plugin in my home/mozilla directory which was being scanned
> first and was causing some kind of weird conflict with the newly
> installed plugins in /user/lib/mozilla. I found this out after
> uninstalling Mplayer Plugin, when despite what appeared to be a clean
> uninstall , mplayer plugin would still launch and try 9unsucessfully) to
> play some movies.
> 
> So I did a full system search of everything to do with mplayer plugin
> and removed it - and I completely removed/scrubbed my system of Mplayer.
> Then when I was happy my sytem was clean, I reinstalled both.
> 
> However unfortunately progress does not yet mean complete success while
> I can play and hear almost any video from Yahoo Video Search, I can only
> see Apple HD content. (In other words, I cannot hear it). It does look
> very nifty though!

	3 things to check:
	
		1. correct ao (probably ok, since you can hear yahoo)
		2. faad support compiled into mplayer
		3. essential codecs are being found and used.


> 
> The other issue I have is with stability, after playing some HDD
> content, Firefox will always invariably crash. (Sometimes just before
> beginning playing the content - and alsmost always immediately afterwards).
>
	Are you using current CVS? Or from a couple of days ago? If it is not
current, update it. Some patches have went in.

	Running firefox under gdb and giving a backtrace of the crash would be
very helpful.

	firefox -g
	at gdb prompt type:	run
	at gdb prompt after crash type:		bt
	Send me the output.



> But it is still good progress! It would be cool if there was some way
> for mplayer Plugin to write a log file of what is going on so that you
> can see exactly what is happening just before a crash. It isn't only
> Apple HDD content it crashes on, but it is what makes it crash most
> reliably.

It does, you have to enable firefox's writing to the terminal

Edit /usr/bin/firefox

And change this

 if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZARGS 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
 fi

to

 if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZARGS
 fi

And then when you run firefox from a terminal and have debug=1 in the
conf file, you'll see lots of stuff.
> 
> GJ
> 
> 
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