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hey, I got a html page where is a mpgeg video file introduce with:

<embed src="video.mpg" width="700" height="525" autoload="false" autostart="false" loop=0 >

I've installed vlc and vlc-plugin (urpmi vlc, urpmi mozilla-vlc-plugin). I'm sure vlc plugin is installed in firefox-mozilla cause when I do about:plugins everything's ok. (mpeg, avi,... >> ok). I can easily read the video in vlc but when I try to read it with firefox-mozilla I got a "no picture" message and the html page loading stopped.

what can I do to solve this problem please ?

(operating system: mdk 2005)

thanks.

you need to lauch playback using javascript.

Have a look at http://vthr.videolan.org/~dionoea/vlc-plugin-demo/ for examples.

sorry but this link is down

well that can happen sometimes he?
Try another day, i have no idea when someone will be present to reboot the server.

i'll go reboot it tonight ... so it should be back tomorrow

using debian sid packages, and even on the test page I got a black screen with (no picture) written inside Only solution I got elsewhere was to use mplayer plugin...

did you try pressing play ?

I didn't since no play button (no button at all) are displayed

Well there are some on the test page, but it doesn't work better.

clicking there will load the file and play it.
http://vthr.videolan.org/~dionoea/vlc-p ... w_h264.asf

Acutally I just noticed vlc didn't make any streaming but load the entire file. That may have been my problem. Just testing it "worldwide"...

using the plugin example pages does not require to download the entire video before playing the file.

anyway the play button doesn't work. I manage to have videos on http://www.agoride.com however I couldn't read anything on eurosport.fr and nothing about the trailers available at apple.com . I tried to get .mov url from page sources, VLC can't resolve the url while mplayer does... (tested from command line)

screenshot:

does this apply to your setup :

# rtsp will not work if you are behind a NAT

# rtsp and mms streams might not be able to work if you are behind a firewall

?

ahem no comment
sorry.

Still, vlc plug in doesn't work in places where mplayer does, i.e. apple trailers.

Same problem. I'm using hybrid Win32/linux systems on a local network, and the mozilla plugin will not play a single source from anywhere, not even a local file.

I just figured out that the mozilla javascript console complained about missing functions, when I pressed play(), stop(), fullscreen(), etc. so I'm looking in that direction for answers now...

I'll keep u posted.

I found a solution!

Apparently, the target-attribute in the embed-tag is not implemented correctly, so the entire video-object is not available. I changed 'target' into 'src', and the player seems to work good now.