MPlayer Plugin Starts Playing too Early

dudeman41465 · 10-31-2005, 11:04 PM

I'm running Mandriva 2005 LE and have installed the mplayer-mozilla plugin so I could watch embedded videos like those shown on www.ebaumsworld.com . Anyway, I've never had a problem with streaming audio, but 9 times out of 10 it only loads up to around 15% before it starts playing a video and the movie will stop playing prematurely, then I have to click play once it stops and by then it has loaded the entire movie and will play perfect. Does anybody know where I can change the settings so that mplayer will wait until the file is completely loaded before it starts playing?

jschiwal · 10-31-2005, 11:21 PM

Here is the page to configure the mplayer-mozilla plugin:
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/config.php

Perhaps you could try making the line
cache-percent=100

dudeman41465 · 10-31-2005, 11:43 PM

Awesome I got it, thank you. I just didn't know where the .conf file was located and that document helped me out, thanks.

dudeman41465 · 11-01-2005, 12:41 AM

Well I thought that had it but I managed to fix the problem by changing the value of these lines back to 0. Now it waits a second before it starts playing and downloads the entire file before it starts. Problem solved finally.

Code:

# Download file before playing (default=0)
#download=0

dudeman41465 · 11-01-2005, 01:07 AM

OMG, it's still not working right. Here, I'll post the exact contents of my mplayerplug-in.conf file. I even edited the contents of the config file in $HOME/.mplayer to match those settings that I wanted. Tell me what I need to change. I bumped the cache size up to 2048 and it never goes that high even on movies bigger than that, and I set it to download the file before playing it I think and it still doesn't work right. Tell me what I need to change. Here are the contents.

Code:

# Enable debugging if set to 1 (default=0)
debug=1

# File to write debug info to
logfile=$HOME/tmp/mplayerplug-in.log

# Video output
vo=xv,x11

# Audio output
ao=esd,alsa,oss,arts,null

# Passes display to show output to, useful for multiple monitor setups
#display=[display name]

# Tells mplayer to allow default video post processing or not (default=0)
#novop=1

# Pass special video post processing
#vopopt=[mplayer vop options]

# Option for rtsp streams, set to 1 when behind proxy (default=0)
#rtsp-use-tcp=1

# OSD Level (default=0)
osdlevel=3

# When set to 1 uses the aspect of movie no matter what (default=1)
#prefer-aspect=0

# If set to 1, forces mplayer to be in it's own window (default=0)
#noembed=0

# Where to store the downloaded movies
dload-dir=$HOME/tmp

# Download file before playing (default=0)
#download=0

# Set to 1 if you want to keep downloaded media (default=0)
#keep-download=0

# Cache Size in kB. This is the buffer size before the video plays (default=512)
#cachesize=2048

# Percent of file to load into cache (default=25)
#cache-percent=100

# Read mime types to handle from $HOME/{.mplayer,.mozilla},/etc/mplayerplug-in.types
#use-mimetypes=1

# Set QT Speeed, use "low" for dialup, "med" for DSL, "high" for more
#qt-speed=med

# Enable/Disable RealPlayer mime-types (default=0)
#enable-real=1

# Enable/Disable WindowsMedia mime-types (default=1)
#enable-wm=0

# Enable/Disable QuickTime mime-types (default=1)
#enable-qt=0

# Enable/Disable Mpeg mime-types (default=1)
#enable-mpeg=0

# Enable/Disable Ogg mime-types (default=1)
#enable-ogg=1

# Enable/Disable Smil (default=1)
#enable-smil=1

# For Live.com video behind a proxy
# rtsp-use-tcp=0

# Black background
#black-background=0

# Disable media cache
#nomediacache=0

# Skip displaying some frames
#framedrop=0

# Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based on audio delay measurements
#autosync=0

# Maximum A-V sync correction per frame
#mc=0

# User-Agent
#user-agent=NSPlayer

PDock · 11-01-2005, 04:54 AM

Quote:

I bumped the cache size up to 2048 and ......

Code:

# Cache Size in kB. This is the buffer size before the video plays (default=512)
#cachesize=2048

Perhaps uncommenting the line(s)?

Code:

# Cache Size in kB. This is the buffer size before the video plays (default=512)
cachesize=2048

# Percent of file to load into cache (default=25)
cache-percent=100

jbuckley2004 · 12-17-2005, 04:48 PM

I know this is a little old, but I was having the same (annoying) problem. The above advice (I changed cache-percent=100, cachesize=1024) worked for me (using LE2005 and Firefox 1.5), but not until I rebooted. 'Touch'ing the mplayerplug-in.so file as suggested in the mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net configuration write-up did nothing.

I'm glad it works the way I expected it too now. But for the life of me, I cannot understand why the defaults were chosen the way they were, under any circumstances. I mean, I understand the concept of previewing a long vid. as an option, but as the default? Seems silly.