mplayer plug-in not playing some streams

[Novembre]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Novembre <novembre at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed mplayer-0.99.10_14 and mplayerplug-in-3.45 using packages
> on my 7.0-RELEASE machine which runs Firefox 2.0.0.12. I am not able to
> see *some* online content, though, and I couldn't find any pattern.
> For example, going to http://www.davidgilmour.com/dvd.htm , I can see the
> Windows Media streams (both low and high resolution versions), but QuickTime
> and Real Player streams are not played at all --- a new tab opens in
> Firefox, and I see "Getting playlist..." and "Connecting to server..."
> messages, but then it says "Stopped" and that's it!
> But, if I go to http://www.satriani.com/podcast/Satchafunkilus/ and click
> on any of the podcasts (they are in .m4v which, if I'm not mistaken, is just
> a container for QuickTime .mov videos), mplayerplug-in plays them
> flawlessly. Another example for QuickTime is
> http://www.vai.com/SightsSounds/video_vault/index.html where all the
> videos can be played perfectly.
> As for Real Player, I see watch BBC Persian website's videos in Windows
> Media (e.g. this one about Euro2008 games
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/meta/dps/2008/06/bb/080606_op-euro2008_16x9_bb.asx), but if I choose Real Player as my format, I can only hear the sound and
> no video is played!
>
> I would appreciate any help :)
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>


anybody?