Movie trailers, mplayer, etc.

[Collins Richey]

On 10/24/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Not too surprising.During the transition to 2.6 kernels,mplayer failed
to work at all over many dot releases. But then, why does WinXP have
problems also?

>
> In my experience, (re)loading the movie several times will eventually get
> it to play.

Doesn't help here - still fails after10x reloads.

> 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.
>

Thanks for the workaround, but I'm not that crazy about trailers. I'll
just wait for mplayer to get it right.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
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