Watching CNN video [FC5]???

[Deepak Shrestha]

On 9/10/06, Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net> wrote:

> The best way I know of to diagnose mplayerplug-in problems is to
> capture the URL of the video you are trying to play and try to play it
> from the command line with mplayer. The mplayerplug-in just calls
> mplayer with some specific options which you can see if you list all
> processes (ps aux) while the video is trying to play.
>
> Once you have the URL, trying to play it from the command line with
> mplayer will show you any problems it finds. It may help to run
> mplayer in verbose mode (-v). One of the most common problems is the
> cache size setting.
>
> Also, if you right-click on the mplayerplug-in window itself, you
> might check the settings under "Configure".
>
> Here's a CNN video you can try from today's Shuttle launch:
>
> mplayer -cache 512
> mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/tech/2006/09/09/vo.shuttle.launch.nasa.ws.wmv
>
> --Kenny

invoking mplayer separately as you told works but browser embedeed
mplayer cannot play. I checked the cache setting in browser embedded
mplayer and its 512 by default. So I guess it has nothing to do with
cache.