MPlayer and Windows Media videos--sound, but no picture!

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Oct 22 02:53:01 UTC 2004


Temlakos wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 19:05, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> 
>>Temlakos wrote:
>>
>>>Everyone:
>>>
>>>Mplayer has a problem with Windows Media ".wmv" files and, for that
>>>matter, QuickTime ".mov" files. Mozilla's plugin for those files gives
>>>me sound, but no picture. I can play MPEG's and .asf files without a
>>>problem--picture and sound--and I also can play any commercial DVD
>>>(though mplayer doesn't let me see the interactive menu, but just lets
>>>me select the title and chapter by the numbers). A lot of Web sites out
>>>there offer streaming video in the ".wmv" format, and it's a little
>>>annoying to get them with sound, but no picture. (I also installed
>>>RealPlayer 10, and that plays videos without a problem.)
>>>
>>>I'll take any suggestion I can get.
>>>
>>>Temlakos
>>
>>I've got just the opposite behavior. When I point my browser to this url 
>>to see the Blade: Trinity trailer I get the video but no sound with 
>>mplayer in mozilla:
>>
>>http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/blade_trinity/trailer/
>>
>>I suspect it's a codec problem, but oddly Mandrake 10 doesn't suffer the 
>>same problem.
> 
> 
> And when I tried to watch one of those trailers, I got neither picture
> nor sound! It reshaped the frame to go along with the wide-screen aspect
> ratio, and completed its buffering, and then...nothing.

I find that when I don't get any picture, I often do after toggling the 
Full Screen mode a few times....

I tried the URL above, and had to toggle 5 times to actually see the 
trailer run in Full Screen Mode.

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Kevin J. Cummings
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