MPlayer Plugin Starts Playing too Early

[linuxuser40351]

I'm running Mandriva 2005 LE and have installed the mplayer-mozilla plugin so I could watch embedded videos like those shown on www.ebaumsworld.com . Anyway, I've never had a problem with streaming audio, but 9 times out of 10 it only loads up to around 15% before it starts playing a video and the movie will stop playing prematurely, then I have to click play once it stops and by then it has loaded the entire movie and will play perfect. I have edited both the mozillaplug-in.conf file in /etc and the config file in $HOME/.mplayer and they both match, but the one in my home is supposed to take superiority which is why I edited them both. Anyway the videos still stop prematurely. Here is the contents of the file and could somebody tell me what I need to change in order for it to download the entire video regardless of size before it starts playing it?

# Enable debugging if set to 1 (default=0)
debug=1

# File to write debug info to
logfile=$HOME/tmp/mplayerplug-in.log

# Video output
vo=xv,x11

# Audio output
ao=esd,alsa,oss,arts,null

# Passes display to show output to, useful for multiple monitor setups
#display=[display name]

# Tells mplayer to allow default video post processing or not (default=0)
#novop=1

# Pass special video post processing
#vopopt=[mplayer vop options]

# Option for rtsp streams, set to 1 when behind proxy (default=0)
#rtsp-use-tcp=1

# OSD Level (default=0)
osdlevel=3

# When set to 1 uses the aspect of movie no matter what (default=1)
#prefer-aspect=0

# If set to 1, forces mplayer to be in it's own window (default=0)
#noembed=0

# Where to store the downloaded movies
dload-dir=$HOME/tmp

# Download file before playing (default=0)
#download=0

# Set to 1 if you want to keep downloaded media (default=0)
#keep-download=0

# Cache Size in kB. This is the buffer size before the video plays (default=512)
#cachesize=2048

# Percent of file to load into cache (default=25)
#cache-percent=100

# Read mime types to handle from $HOME/{.mplayer,.mozilla},/etc/mplayerplug-in.types
#use-mimetypes=1

# Set QT Speeed, use "low" for dialup, "med" for DSL, "high" for more
#qt-speed=med

# Enable/Disable RealPlayer mime-types (default=0)
#enable-real=1

# Enable/Disable WindowsMedia mime-types (default=1)
#enable-wm=0

# Enable/Disable QuickTime mime-types (default=1)
#enable-qt=0

# Enable/Disable Mpeg mime-types (default=1)
#enable-mpeg=0

# Enable/Disable Ogg mime-types (default=1)
#enable-ogg=1

# Enable/Disable Smil (default=1)
#enable-smil=1

# For Live.com video behind a proxy
# rtsp-use-tcp=0

# Black background
#black-background=0

# Disable media cache
#nomediacache=0

# Skip displaying some frames
#framedrop=0

# Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based on audio delay measurements
#autosync=0

# Maximum A-V sync correction per frame
#mc=0

# User-Agent
#user-agent=NSPlayer

[jeremy1701]

From http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/config.php

* Mozilla only will evalate the mime types the plugin supports when the plugin is updated or when $HOME/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat is missing. So when you change the enable options you need to delete pluginreg.dat or touch mplayerplug-in.so.

Did you do that?

[linuxuser40351]

When I delete $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat it just re-creates it when I play an embedded file. How would I go about "touching" the mplayerplug-in.so file? I'm not an expert tweaker, I'm still kind of new to it so any detailed help would be sweet ass, lol. Apparently though it's not using the mplayerplug-in.conf file as a reference because regardless of what changes I make the plugin acts the same. I have checked all of the possible locations for duplicate copies of the file and there aren't any, so what could be causing the problem? My mplayerplug-in.so file is located in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/plugins (it is really 1.0.7 but on initial installation of the os it was 1.0.2). What would I need to edit it with or what do I need to do?

[chickens_are_good]

touch /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so

man touch