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Bug 291088 - Unable to play video streams that require windows media player and quicktime
Summary: Unable to play video streams that require windows media player and quicktime
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 291090 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-10-30 01:02 UTC by b14wc@hotmail.com
Modified: 2015-10-26 15:16 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---

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Emerge info (emergeinfo,8.26 KB, text/plain)
2009-10-30 20:31 UTC, b14wc@hotmail.com 		Details
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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