ports/89897: mplayerplug-in-3.16 will not play in Firefox when asked

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:23 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote:
> On December 3, 2005 05:19 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Synopsis: mplayerplug-in-3.16 will not play in Firefox when asked
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: marcus
> > State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 3 22:18:00 GMT 2005
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > Not a bug as it works fine for me.  I was able to go to
> > http://www.apple.com/trailers/, and play any trailer I selected in Firefox
> > without any user interaction.  Problames with starting video are usually
> > issues with mplayer itself, so make sure you can run mplayer standalone.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=89897
> 
> As I already mentionned, anything that autoplays itself will work fine.  I too 
> can play anything in http://www.apple.com/trailers/.  Try this :
> 
> http://poststuffx.entensity.net/112805/media.php?media=alizee.wmv
> 
> And yes, mplayer works fine.

You're right.  This fails, but normal wmv does not.  I would report this
to the mplayerplug-in authors since this is most likely not limited to
FreeBSD.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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