[PLUG] Movie trailers

[Steve Nelson]

Hi,

I use Mandrake 9.1 with MPlayer and the mplayerplug-in with Mozilla. I
have all the codecs that are available for MPlayer and when I went to
movies.yahoo.com and chose the Spiderman2 movie trailer it played with
no problems.

Some of the streaming video requires java to be working within your
browser. Is that perhaps the problem with your setup? Do you have java
working in your browser? Otherwise I can only suggest that perhaps your
sound card was tied up with something else when you tried to play the
trailer -- which will cause mplayerplug-in to not play. (were you
listening to some mp3's at the time or something?).

Anyways -- the trailer does work under Linux. If you give more detail
perhaps I can help.

HTH
Steve

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 18:25, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Mel Andres <mel97215 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > I was demonstrating some features of Linux to our son-in-law last night.
> > All was going well until he asked me to play a movie trailer for
> > spiderman 2. He led me to a link at movies.yahoo.com, quite long so I
> > won't paste it into the email. When I click on the link, a window pops
> > up titled "Media Helper" that supposedly scans my system looking for the
> > appropriate plugin. After a bit it asks me to choose my player and
> > connection speed, with two choices. 1. Windoze media player
> > 2. Real Player (but the button for this selection is grayed out.)
> 
> RealPlayer sucks anyway.  If you're using Debian, be sure to have
> w32codecs installed.  It's non-free, but you'll be able to play all
> the funky, proprietary codecs you're likely to come across.
> 
> You will need Christian Marillat's apt repository in your
> sources.list to get that package.
> 
> # Media codecs, etc
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
-- 
Steve Nelson <steve at out-of-control.com>
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