mplayerplug-in + firefox no video with wmv (SOLVED)

[spencerf]

I'm posting here in gentoo because I emerged all these programs and just did a fresh gentoo install. Mplayerplug-in works with everything but wmv embedded video. And even here it will play sound but no video only the grey mplayerplug-in screen. Here are my version of appropriate software

mplayer=MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.5-20050130

mplayerplug-in=2.80

firefox=1.5

Some more information. I have the appropriate .so .xpt in their respective places. Also when i do: aboutlugins in firefox it shows that everything is working including wmv.

Anyone has any ideas or please let me know this is extremely frustrating I spend like 5 hourse last night trying to make sure I wasn't doing something stupid and googlind the h e double hockey sticks out of it.

Thanks again.

[Nerderello]

not sure that this has anything to do with your problem, but I found that I couldn't get mplayer to show wmv files. I had to copy the win32 codecs into /usr/lib/win32 (here's a list of that folder :-

[root@localhost win32]# ls
acelpdec.ax   huffyuv.dll   m3jpeg32.dll  nsrt2432.acm  vp4vfw.dll
alf2cd.acm    i263_32.drv   m3jpegdec.ax  pclepim1.dll  vssh264core.dll
asusasv2.dll  iccvid.dll    mcdvd_32.dll  qdv.dll       vssh264dec.dll
asusasvd.dll  icmw_32.dll   mcmjpg32.dll  qpeg32.dll    vssh264.dll
ativcr2.dll   imaadp32.acm  mpg4c32.dll   rt32dcmp.dll  vsslight.dll
atrac3.acm    imc32.acm     mpg4ds32.ax   sp5x_32.dll   vsswlt.dll
avimszh.dll   ir32_32.dll   msadp32.acm   tm20dec.ax    wma9dmod.dll
avizlib.dll   ir41_32.dll   msg711.acm    tsccvid.dll   wmadmod.dll
CLRVIDDC.DLL  ir50_32.dll   msgsm32.acm   tssoft32.acm  wmspdmod.dll
clrviddd.dll  ivvideo.dll   msh261.drv    ubv263d+.ax   wmv8ds32.ax
CtWbJpg.DLL   jp2avi.dll    msms001.vwp   ubvmp4d.dll   wmv9dmod.dll
divxa32.acm   l3codeca.acm  msnaudio.acm  ultimo.dll    wmvdmod.dll
divx_c32.ax   l3codecx.ax   msrle32.dll   vgpix32d.dll  wmvds32.ax
divxc32.dll   LCodcCMP.dll  msscds32.ax   vivog723.acm
divxdec.ax    lhacm.acm     msvidc32.dll  voxmsdec.ax
divx.dll      m3jp2k32.dll  mvoiced.vwp   vp31vfw.dll

Like I said, may have nothing to do with your problems, but I thought I'd chip in.

have fun

Nerderello

[spencerf]

thanx but I have all of those and more in there. Like I said before I'm really at wits end here because I've tried everything and double checked everything. Well obviously not everything because it won't work.

here's an update though I can play this file through mplayerplug-in but nothing on cnn.com or mlb.com. I really want mlb.com stuff to work because during the baseball season I want to livecast stream games.

http://www.philmultic.com/liufang/video/bawang03.wmv

[spencerf]

here's another update I think I found the problem mplayer itself won't play wmv9 files with video here's the output from mplayer when trying to play such a file.

Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

guess I'll look into this then report back any suggestions as always welcome.

[spencerf]

ok think I found the problem I didn't have win32codecs set as a use flag for mplayer. Even though I emerged them seperately later I don't think mplayer compiled with them as an option and I am now compiling mplayer with this USE flag enabled and hopefully this will solve my problem I will report back in a couple of minutes hopefully with a good update.

[spencerf]

that did it. So if you are using gentoo and want mplayerplug-in to play videos based on wmv9 you need to emerge with the USE flag win32codecs when you compile mplayer itself it is not (at least in my case) sufficient to just put these codecs into /usr/lib/win32/

thanks for the help nerderello I knew I had the codecs but you got me thinking about why they weren't working. Hope this post helps anyone having a similar problem.

[rakavka]

Hi , I'm a newbie so...
I have mandriva 2006 power..
I removed the ff 1.06 and downloaded ff 1.5 . I didn't find the way to "install" it so I execute it by shell script. Now when I try to install(./configure) the plug-in, I get the following:
"......
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for mozilla-plugin... configure: WARNING: mozilla-plugin not found
checking for firefox-plugin... configure: WARNING: firefox-plugin not found
checking for seamonkey-plugin... configure: WARNING: seamonkey-plugin not found
checking for xulrunner-plugin... configure: WARNING: xulrunner-plugin not found
configure: error: Unable to find mozilla or firefox development files
"
What should I do?

[rakavka]

Solved it by installing rpm !