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

[John Yanosko]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:28, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Temlakos wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 22:53, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > 
> >>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.
> > 
> > 
> > But how can you toggle Full Screen mode in mplayer when it is operating
> > through its Mozilla plug-in? Where is the hot button for that kind of
> > toggle? If I were playing a download in mplayer itself, I could find it
> > easily, but not the plug-in--unless I'm missing something.
> 
> I found it in the lower right-hand corner of the plugin.  And it remains 
> there (lower right hand corner of the screen) while in full screen mode....
> 

It's also in the context menu.

And, if you didn't already know, Windows codecs are not reliable under
Mplayer unless you disable prelink and exec-shield for Mplayer.

See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2893643