[vlc plugin / mozilla / embed] problem

[kentwood]

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.

[dionoea]

you need to lauch playback using javascript.

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

[kentwood]

sorry but this link is down

[The DJ]

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

[dionoea]

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

[martin]

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...

[dionoea]

did you try pressing play ?

[martin]

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

[martin]

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

[martin]

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"...

[dionoea]

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

[martin]

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)

[martin]

screenshot:

[dionoea]

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

?

[Guest]

ahem no comment
sorry.

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

[germansmedia]

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.

[Guest]

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.