Watching CNN video [FC5]???

[Kenny Gow]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I had the same problem going as well, and it was specifically with the
> latest Livna and Sourceforge RPMs to boot. I later found that versions
> of mplayerplug-in after version 3.25 fail with the exact behavior
> mentioned (at least the ones I tried).
> 
> Eventually, I rolled back to Tomas Chung's verion -
> mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.fc5 - that is referred to by Stanley Finton's
> site. This one seems to work reliably.
> 
> I assume from this that there is a bug in the newer versions that CNN
> can't handle (other sites are apparently OK) that is most likely in the
> upstream Sourceforge code.

I always put "noembed=1" in my mplayerplug-in.conf file so the video 
plays in a separate window. I just tried mplayerplug-in version 3.31 
compiled from source and it worked.

But, when I commented out "noembed=1" to have it play in the same 
window it did not work. Go figure.

--Kenny