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Black window that says Video is loading...

Tried with multiple videos on various sites, none work.

Im using xp pro 32bit and firefox 3.0.1

Any ideas as to what my problem is?

Can you use VLC to open those same files? (paste URL to VLC and try to play)

I have the same problem with Firefox 3. So I also tried with Safari and Chrome with the same result (black screen with "video is loading"). But before that you receive many messageboxes saying:

Component not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
avocodec-51.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found 'yes again
libfontconfig-1.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libfontconfig-1.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libfreetype-6.dll not found
libz-1-2.dll not found
libxml2-2.dll not found

this is also not the exact text but only translation

Hello,

I suffer from the very same issue.

Neither in IE (ActiveX) nor in Firefox (2 and 3) do I get anything more than the "video is loading" message. I used firebug to step through the player code but there are no exceptions fired. The same code played all fine with the VLC 0.8.6 plugin ...

A network monitor shows me that there is actually video data being streamed after playItem() is called. The video just seems not to make it to the screen!

The very same MRLs (http (mjpeg) and rtsp (h.264)) I use on the web page play fine in the VLC desktop client, btw.

This is a serious show stopper and I'd greatly appreciate any hints to get it working!

P.S.: I do NOT get any error messages like the ones mentioned above...

Yes.
Maybe your problem is also discussed on at least 2 other topics, see viewtopic.php?f=16&t=50173. (but those two others topics are not focused on rtsp bug)

This appears to be the corresponding bug in trac: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2062

Unfortunately it is impossible to add information there, even after taking the effort to register (

The nightly build of vlc 0.9.3 solved the probleme
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0918-0206/

This appears to be the corresponding bug in trac: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2062

Unfortunately it is impossible to add information there, even after taking the effort to register :-((

Maybe comments are restricted like ticket creation. For them, you have to give your trac account name on the IRC for it to be validated. More feature are allowed for validated accounts.
A workaround is given on the trac for Firefox (this ticket trac is dedicated to the FF problem because unfortunately, mozilla and IE problems seems to not be the sames).

Hello,

I suffer from the very same issue.

Neither in IE (ActiveX) nor in Firefox (2 and 3) do I get anything more than the "video is loading" message. I used firebug to step through the player code but there are no exceptions fired. The same code played all fine with the VLC 0.8.6 plugin ...
A network monitor shows me that there is actually video data being streamed after playItem() is called. The video just seems not to make it to the screen!
The very same MRLs (http (mjpeg) and rtsp (h.264)) I use on the web page play fine in the VLC desktop client, btw.
This is a serious show stopper and I'd greatly appreciate any hints to get it working!
P.S.: I do NOT get any error messages like the ones mentioned above...

Hello all,

I confirm too :
on this test page, the vlc 0.8.6i plugin work perfectly with Firefox 2 or 3 , but don't work with the vlc 0.9.2 plugin; I've only the message "video is loading"

Yup, I'm getting a very similar issue..

I'm using Opera 9.52 with the 0.9.2 plugin. When I try to play an embedded file I get two error dialogs:
-First one complains that libfreetype-6.dll was not found.
-Second one complains that libxml2-2.dll was not found.

Then I get a black window saying "Video is loading..." and nothing happens.

My install is notable for the fact that I'm using Windows XP N (N = not including WMP). I'm trying to see if I can use VLC as my only media player, with no other players installed. So far, it's not looking good.

This will be hopefully fixed in 0.9.3, at least nightlies don't have libfreetype-6.dll, libxml2-2.dll in vlc folder.

hello all,
I received with with version 0.9.2 two error messages:
a) libz-1-2.dll missing
b) avcodec-41.dll is missing.

just installed the above nightly build of vlc 0.9.3 to solve the problemes occured but no success.
Neither with the latest Opera v.9.52 nor with Firefox v. 3.0.2 : just the "video is loading" message only.

I saw on another forum ( http://forum.golem.de/read.php?27792,1455317,1457456 ) an advice
(translated into English):

egbert wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------

> Copy the following DLLs from the VLC-file to
> c:\windows\system32. This has helped me.
>
> avcodec-51.dll
> axvlc.dll
> libfontconfig-1.dll
> libfreetype-6.dll
> libgcrypt-11.dll
> libgpg-error-0.dll
> libiconv-2.dll
> libvlc.dll
> libvlccore.dll
> libxml2-2.dll
> libz-1-2.dll

I have no idea whether it really works like that. I better wait now for the
final version 0.9.3.

This appears to be the corresponding bug in trac: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2062

Unfortunately it is impossible to add information there, even after taking the effort to register (

Maybe comments are restricted like ticket creation. For them, you have to give your trac account name on the IRC for it to be validated. More feature are allowed for validated accounts.
A workaround is given on the trac for Firefox (this ticket trac is dedicated to the FF problem because unfortunately, mozilla and IE problems seems to not be the sames).

I also have the problem in IE 7.0.5730.13 under Microsoft Windows XP [Versión 5.1.2600] I don't get to see the video using the VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko release. With nightbuilds previous to the official release I could see it with no problem.

There's a ticket trac for the firefox plugin but, What about the IE plugin problem??

If the IE suffers from same libz-1-2.dll etc. problem, it will be fixed at the same time as the Mozilla issue.

Having the same problem. Tested w/ FF2 & FF3, 0.8.x works but not 0.9.x (I get the same msg: "Video is loading...")

I hope they fix it soon! Had to redirect visitors to download VLC 0.8.x instead so it'll work

The VLC 0.9.2 mozilla plugin suffers of 2 separate bugs, reported here:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2062
and here:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2120

The first bug can be worked around using one of the methods suggested in the trac system.
Unfortunately as far as I know the second bug (affecting users behind a http proxy) has no workaround to date.

I too advised my website users to download and install VLC 0.8.6.

I would suggest the VIDEOLAN team to take a drastic temporary measure, that is to take back the release of the VLC 0.9.2 for windows, as it looks buggy and moreover there is no developer currently at work on the windows version. This will give us, that at present rely on VLC plugin for our websites, a temporary relief.
In my opinion it makes no sense to release VLC 0.9.3 just for *nix systems and to leave the flawed 0.9.2 for windows systems. Better to release the 0.9.3 for *nix and return to 0.8.6 for win, until the win version gets improved.

I am in favor of "release often" policies, but you *must* have developers to support the policy thereafter.

0.9.2 release for Win32 was needed because of other issues (like MKV and MP4 playback, FLV rewind and SSA support).

There was long time between and 0.8.6 and 0.9.2 release that people could have tried 0.9.2 nightlies and test versions to report bugs, but only few people did so. VLC is so massive that is impossible to test and fix stuff without user feedback. And Win-dev situation has been very bad as long as I can remember.

The VLC 0.9.2 mozilla plugin suffers of 2 separate bugs, reported here:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2062
and here:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2120

The first bug can be worked around using one of the methods suggested in the trac system.
Unfortunately as far as I know the second bug (affecting users behind a http proxy) has no workaround to date.

I too advised my website users to download and install VLC 0.8.6.

I would suggest the VIDEOLAN team to take a drastic temporary measure, that is to take back the release of the VLC 0.9.2 for windows, as it looks buggy and moreover there is no developer currently at work on the windows version. This will give us, that at present rely on VLC plugin for our websites, a temporary relief.
In my opinion it makes no sense to release VLC 0.9.3 just for *nix systems and to leave the flawed 0.9.2 for windows systems. Better to release the 0.9.3 for *nix and return to 0.8.6 for win, until the win version gets improved.

I am in favor of "release often" policies, but you *must* have developers to support the policy thereafter.

I am so glad you offered your work to help us! You can send patches to vlc-devel...

Or... maybe, I didn't understood you...

Exact same problem 'Video is loading' black screen when using the plugin. Worked fine in 0.8.6i which i had installed seconds before.
If it is a path problem maybe you can add the VCL exe path to the SYSTEM %path% via control panel system. Then the apparent missing dlls should be loaded as if they are in system32 as they can be located. But if the dlls are missing and it is a path issue, then you would normally get a dll missing error from C++

I also have the same problem with the plug in - the 0.86i plugin works fine, but this plugin for 0.9.2 is not working.

If the error messages are that it cannot find the dlls that suggests to me that they are not registered in the system registry.... Searched for them but cannot find them in there.
By using regsvr32 i tried to register the dlls, but there is an error stating the dll is loaded but there is no RegServer entry point.

I guess you will just have to go back to 0.86i until its sorted.

Try nightlies as said before.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/latest/

Hello all,
I confirm too :
on this test page, the vlc 0.8.6i plugin work perfectly with Firefox 2 or 3 , but don't work with the vlc 0.9.2 plugin; I've only the message "video is loading"

I just try the latest nigthly build of the 10/06 (VLC 0.9.4)on Windows XP SP3 with Firefox 3.0.3, and the plugin don't work

Same error on both 0.9.2 and on 0.9.4?

Ive had some experience with this same problem. With 0.9.2 no video would play at all with the plugin in firefox 3.

I downloaded a nightly of version 0.9.3 and almost everything worked great. The only problem was that after playing a video in fullscreen mode with the plugin, firefox would simple vanish. I assume that it is crashing but there was no error message, firefox just silently quit.

Ive also just tested with the 0.9.4 release and no video will play again, it does look to be the same error as the 0.9.2 version.

Same error on both 0.9.2 and on 0.9.4?

Yes , and same error with the 0.9.4 last release