Bug 291088

Summary:	Unable to play video streams that require windows media player and quicktime
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	b14wc <b14wc>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	SebastianLuther
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Emerge info

Description b14wc@hotmail.com 2009-10-30 01:02:30 UTC

Unable to play video streams that require windows media player and quicktime.  All it does is show a grey screen and then nothing happens the stream does not play.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.www.apple.com/trailers or http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
2.a grey screen flashes
3.

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
a video to be streamed

I have gentoo x86 and amd64 installed on two different computers and I experience the same problem on both computers.

Comment 1 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-10-30 07:34:44 UTC

*** Bug 291090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-10-30 07:38:09 UTC

You told use nothing about the software you use. Which browser, which plugin, which versions of them. emerge --info is missing too. 

Anyways, this issue seem more appropriate for forum/mailing-list/IRC than bugzilla.

Comment 3 b14wc@hotmail.com 2009-10-30 20:31:54 UTC

Created attachment 208790 [details]
Emerge info

please let me know if there is any other information needed to assist me with this program.  i am experiencing this problem on two different computers.  i using gnome-mediaplayer-0.9.8 and gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8, mplayer-1.0_rc4_p1.0_rc4_p20091026-r120091026-r1

Comment 4 b14wc@hotmail.com 2009-10-30 20:35:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=208790) [details]
> Emerge info
> 
> please let me know if there is any other information needed to assist me with
> this program.  i am experiencing this problem on two different computers.  i
> using gnome-mediaplayer-0.9.8 and gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8,
> mplayer-1.0_rc4_p1.0_rc4_p20091026-r120091026-r1
> 

I am using mozilla-firefox-bin-3.5.4 and chromium-bin-4.0.222.4_p28661

Comment 5 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-11-01 21:09:53 UTC

Assigning to mplayer maintainers.

Comment 6 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-10-26 15:16:02 UTC

Please try on an updated system