Movie trailers, mplayer, etc.

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> Just to keep the "dead" comments at bay, here's a topic to ponder.
>
> Lately I've been encountering more and more trailers onthe
> AppleTrailers site that will not play using Firefox/Seamonkey, mplayer
> plugin, and theaccursed non-free codecs. Interestingly enough, some of
> these will not play on my wife's XP box either. For example, Dream
> Girls and Babel among the current offerings. mplayer buffers to 99%
> and hangs.
>
> Any guesses what might be wrong?

This is an mplayer bug.  There's some speculation on the mplayerplug-in 
mailing list that its a race condition in the mplayer 'xv' videoout.


In my experience, (re)loading the movie several times will eventually get 
it to play.  On the other hand, I have my mplayerplug-in preferences set 
up to save the movie after downloading, so I can just fire up mplayer to 
play it without the plugin.

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