[Mozplugger] Re: mozplugger with quicktime

[Louis Bavoil]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 13:56:29 -0500 Ed Freeberg
<ed.freeberg at lvdcasino.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello:
> 
> I'm trying to get mozplugger to display quicktime videos like 
> http://www.shania-twain.com/quicktime/300k.html
> 
> All I've managed so far is a gray box where the video should be.
> 
> Running Firefox from the command line gives me this stderr when I try to 
> view the video:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkSuperWin' to `GtkWidget'
> 
> I'm Running Firefox 0.8 on RedHat 9.0
> 
> about:plugins shows mozplugger as installed and qt videos registered.
> 
> I've done the usual googling, but no help.
> 
> Ideas?

The video embedded on this page is at the URL
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/UMG/nashville/088170314_07_300.mov
so MozPlugger calls MPlayer which is registered for .mov files in the
default mozpluggerrc file. (I assume you have MPlayer installed.)

The problem seems to be that mplayer doesn't support this particular
type of QuickTime file which is not a video but an indirection to a
video stream.  (The URL of the video stream is included in
088170314_07_300.mov).

$ mplayer http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/UMG/nashville/088170314_07_300.mov
[...]
Connected to server: stream.qtv.apple.com
Cache fill:  0.00% (216 bytes)    MOV: Reference Media file!!!
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Exiting... (End of file)

$ mplayer -v
MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

Could you make sure that you are using mplayer to read the video and
that your mplayer fails to play it?
(For instance, recompiling MozPlugger enabling the -DDEBUG flag in the
Makefile, reinstalling, loading the page, and reading /tmp/mozdebug .)

Can any open-source video player play the URL above?

Louis