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mPlayer Plugin and Media Player Connectivity

Started by melf, 2008.04.24, 10:33:13

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ddan

To Dave Palmer, who "still cannot run any online video."

NONE? I got SOME working right off.

I'd say start from scratch. Here's my setup: WSEB, PmW-Fx (Firefox) 1.5.0.8,
Smedley's current build of Mplayer, and Win32 codecs from first post on this
topic (though doesn't seem to have any effect), and I moved the .DLLs from
\mplayer to \os2\dll (otherwise must be in \mplayer for it to run at all; I
ignored that during previous command-line experimenting).

Have these lines in CONFIG.SYS (but as noted, the .DLLs must be moved):
SET MPLAYER_HOME=C:\OS2\MPLAYER
SET MPLAYER_CODECS_DIR=C:\MPLAYER\CODECS
SET MPLAYER_PATH=C\MPLAYER\MPLAYER.EXE

I just blithely ignored all other advice. Made my eyes glaze over. Note that
I've NO plug-ins, no MPC, and on some sites it may be important that I use the
"noscript" extension to prevent Javascript from running unless explicitly
allowed, so I don't get re-directed, at the least. The list of things that I
DON'T have, use, or allow is long, includes Shlockware Flash, and all
"plug-ins" that sites wish to install.

Also, previously had all files types (Firefox calls these MIME types) set to
"save to disk", so in Firefox Tools, Options, Downloads, Download Actions, I
set the .WMV type to "Play with mplayer.exe". Then went to a site with known
reliable video: www.crooksandliars.com (don't bother commenting on the
content, irrelevant), and picked a video, clicking on "Download" rather than
"Play", as that tries to install something. An "opening" dialog came up,
clicked on "save", waited for download to complete (usually fast); VIO window
opened, Mplayer ran, played the video just fine while distractingly spewing
info in the VIO; Mplayer closed, leaving the VIO window saying "completed",
must be clicked away.

By the way, KMP worked too, though further testing of Mplayer makes me lean
toward it because seems -- uh, to have different and perhaps less annoying
drawbacks, though its audio seems pretty IFFY. Sometimes running Dink's Z
player in between, or concurrently, gets Mplayer audio working, but guess we
can only wish that a tiny fraction of the money wasted on Vista had gone
toward cleaning up the few quirks in this far superior OS...

Saijin_Naib

What does funding spend by Microsoft on development of Vista have anything to do with the lack of funding for eComStation?

IRT to the rest of your thread, I find that Mplayer plugin works maybe 1 time out of 20 for me, so I'd rather just not have it. Atleast the outdated NP*os2 plugins handle MPEG fine from the sites i visit.

Mplayer stand-alone vs KMP, I prefer KMP simply due to how it can seek within the video by clicking at the representative position within the video window. I think both apps could stand having their GUI parts ported so we don't need to muck with rather annoying and confusing VIO windows.

Dave Palmer

Pete and ddan,

Thanks for serious suggestions.  I've some home work to do.

Quick answers - did read the 'how to' -
Did choose some of m own directory names.
Did do a 'rename' and that might be biting me in the butt.
Extracted codecs directly to the codecs directory, but will double check to see if all made it.
Did get the new mplayer, did install in plugin for FF

But, many more things to check.  It is late - been all day working on FEMA (Fed. Emer. Mgmnt. Agency) stuff (we were badly flooded in Dec.)

My eyes are crossing and I'm out of town tomorrow.  But "I will return".

Thanks,
Dave

ddan

(This may end up looking like an accidental re-post, but at present, it's not showing.)

To Saijin_Naib re "What does funding spend by Microsoft on development of Vista
have anything to do with the lack of funding for eComStation?"

Uh, nothing directly I guess. It's a wish that in a better world, money wouldn't
have been WASTED on an OS so annoying that people actually PAY to have it
"upgraded" to XP.  -- Don't argue that's not true. I've SEEN it several times
in a small shop where I hang out.

Bill BRAGGED that as much money was spent on Vista as on going to the moon.
Might have been worth it if any of the original promises had been kept, but
what was delivered is simply a face-lift on XP plus DRM that no user wants.

Crimosoft put their best people and ideas into OS/2, then after figuring out
that it was TOO good, they spent the next ten years peddling marginal
improvements on top of DOS.

I doubt that there's anything that can be done in Vista that cannot be done in
OS/2; its  base is so fundamentally sound that genuine improvements are
difficult to conceive. (Oh, spare me the SIQ and other quibbles; those are MUCH
rarer than XP simply crashing for no obvious reason during ordinary mousing
around.) But there's no market to support OS/2 APPLICATIONS. -- Vista is doing
TOO MUCH with "features" of spyware, DRM, and "eye candy", that I for one
vehemently DO NOT WANT.

I don't want to become JUST an anti-Crimosoft ranter (though it's one of my
favorite topics). We're here for a better alternative. I'll just sum up by
saying that OS/2 suits me. I'm still discovering its included marvels, such as
REXX, that's far beyond system scripting languages used by Unix or Crimosoft.
(For contrast, look at the recent Powershell, a laughably convoluted, unique
new script language that almost no one can afford to become even adequate at,
no matter what the potential benefits are.) And there are semi-finished gems
like Jumpkey (IBM EWS), a hot-key capability that I had wished for and only
recently discovered. -- So I suggest that we're all better off to spend time
making what incremental additions to OS/2 that we can, than ranting about
Crimosoft, no matter how evil and stupid the empire is.

Saijin_Naib

#49
I think with the Mplayer plugin that the source video must be directly linked to without any redirects or alternate transfer protocols. I really can't find anything that would tell me what causes the plugin to choke on certain streams.

Carlo_Warp

Instead of starting a new discussion I posted mine here. I am happy with Mplayer, because it allowed me to listen to the internet radios and other movies. When I was looking at this internet site (http://www.thecorrswebsite.com/index2.htm), I was unable to listen to the songs and they have the specific .ram format. I installed the codecs from the file  http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20071007.zip 

Pete

Hi Carlo_Warp

I am currently trying to play "Heart like a wheel" that I found in the Music section under Singles.

It is available in RealPlayer and MediaPlayer formats.

I would like to be able to tell you that it is playing but it looks like the link is dead: ie I click on the mplayer "Click here to play..." which changes to "mplayer running..." but there is no indication of network traffic on my router suggesting no download in progress and mplayer finally reverts to "Click here to play...".

I went Back and selected MediaPlayer format: Seamonkey now wants to know what to do with this file:-

The file "t05.wax" is of type audio/x-ms-wax (WAX file)..."

What the f*** is a WAX file? - some new M$ format?


I have also tried a couple of vids from this site and would not recommend the website to anyone - it is far to slow to stream video.

Regards

Pete

Carlo_Warp

Hi Pete, thanks for having tried the website. I am quite happy with Mplayer. Now I want to test it on different sites. I want to try Kplayer as well.

Regards

Carlo

Quote from: Pete on 2008.06.09, 03:37:11
Hi Carlo_Warp

I am currently trying to play "Heart like a wheel" that I found in the Music section under Singles.

It is available in RealPlayer and MediaPlayer formats.

I would like to be able to tell you that it is playing but it looks like the link is dead: ie I click on the mplayer "Click here to play..." which changes to "mplayer running..." but there is no indication of network traffic on my router suggesting no download in progress and mplayer finally reverts to "Click here to play...".

I went Back and selected MediaPlayer format: Seamonkey now wants to know what to do with this file:-

The file "t05.wax" is of type audio/x-ms-wax (WAX file)..."

What the f*** is a WAX file? - some new M$ format?


I have also tried a couple of vids from this site and would not recommend the website to anyone - it is far to slow to stream video.

Regards

Pete