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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:25:04PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:09:16PM -0000, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> > >   Is it just me, or does the MPlayer plug-in not work?  When I try to 
> > > view an embedded QuickTime file, the mplayerplug-in says "Downloading 
> > > playlist..." (or something similar), then "Playing firstMovie.mov", but 
> > > it doesn't.  That's all I see.
> > >
> > >   Other than mplayerplug-in, is there any other way to view embedded 
> > > movies on the web, perhaps based on xine?
> > >
> > >   Jonathan Evraire
> > >   evraire at tuwg.com
> >
> > For the mplayerplug-in, check your config in
> > ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf, it really should work, make sure the
> > config has a reasonable cachesize (cachesize=256 is mine).
> > You can try gxine, that includes a mozilla plugin, though i haven't
> > tried it recently.
>
> I just tried some, and many of the trailers on apple.com really don't
> play anymore, no idea what changed :(

One thing to check for is the audio output settings. alsa9 has changed to
alsa1x in MPlayer if you use the latest alsa release.

$HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf:
ao=alsa1x

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