FS#2759 - can't play apple.com's trailers anymore

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Monday, 23 May 2005, 09:55 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 21 January 2006, 00:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

since the last upgrade, the apple.com trailers don't play anymore with the mplayer-plugin. I get a black rectangle inside the video window saying "no picture". It used to work fairly well.
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Closed by  Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Monday, 23 January 2006, 12:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 23 May 2005, 12:10 GMT
Eugenia, what was upgraded in your "last upgrade"? On a fully up-to-date system, I can play the apple trailers just fine using mplayer-plugin.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 23 May 2005, 12:26 GMT
That's what you get when you install VLC, VLC ships with a mozilla plugin that "supports" Quicktime movies, while it doesn't. Remove the vlc plugins from /opt/mozilla-plugins and mplayer-plugin should pick up the quicktime movies again. Until I have found out how to get rid of the quicktime registration in VLC, I have no other workaround for you than this solution.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Monday, 23 May 2005, 22:25 GMT
Is it possible to make sure that the Arch Linux's version of VLC does not install the browser plugins? Because, obviously, they aren't very good. ;)

I prefer to have Xine, Totem, mplayer and VLC installed on my system for different reasons. Each one has its goods and bads...
Comment by Roberto Carvajal (rcarvajal) - Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 11:59 GMT
this works fine for me..

does anyone still have issues with this??
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 12:02 GMT
Works for me after the VLC and totem mozilla plugins are removed. mplayer-plugin works much better.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 20:49 GMT
Yes, removing the VLC crappy plugin, it works. I would like to suggest Arch Linux to package Totem and VLC without their mozilla plugin, and only allow the mplayer-plugin to play that role in the system. I think most people would prefer that, as it works better.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:27 GMT
is the vlc plugin removed ?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Monday, 31 October 2005, 23:42 GMT
That's what I said, it is removed. And I asked for Arch Linux to remove the Totem and VLC plugins from their packages and only allow the mplayer plugin for this work. The other two plugins are just not ready yet so they should not be deployed as part of the main totem/vlc packages.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 18 December 2005, 08:19 GMT
With the latest version of mplayer-plugin I am able to play Apple trailers again, BUT:
1. The sound is terrible now. It stops and starts all the time while video is smooth.
2. I can't SAVE any of the clips anymore. This used to work.
Comment by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 16:19 GMT
probably a problem with mplayer-plugin itself once again. nothing we can fix.
Comment by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Monday, 23 January 2006, 12:40 GMT
not the fault of our packaging. mplayer-plugin is not bugfree after all and intends to introduce new ones occasionally.

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