> But the stream videos are played externally to the browser,

No! You get your video on the webpage. (Actually, I'm still wondering how
to switch to fullscreen from there. There has to be a way...)

> Generally recompiling the plugin against the new header files solves the issues
> with the updating and is enough to recover stability.
> It' a good practice also to use the last version, presently mplayerplugin 3.40.

It wasn't in the feisty distro yet. (I haven't compiled my system by hand, but
I use the synaptic tool for most installing and updating. And I guess I would
never have even started using Ubuntu, had it been any more complicated than this.)

>...Kevin DeKorte ... is developing its successor the Gecko Media Player plugin.

Well, if it would have made it to the distro, that would have been quite handy.
I may try it in the future, on a day when I feel adventurous. But as it stands,
mozplugger will just have to do.

> I think he is doing a great work ... outside the Microsoft (C) monopole.

So do I, but please spare us the ads. (It's my main reason for using firefox.)
Instead, write him a letter of thanks, or - even better - do as he does.

Qaz_Janssen: yes, I get the same behaviour on those pages. Currently I am running Debian Etch, I will see if I can find a repository to get newer versions of mplayer and mplayerplug-in, but I am loathe to install software that might conflict with the rest of my system. The thing that really bugs me is that this used to work just fine, so something was changed and never fixed back.

I've pretty much given up on having a decent streaming media solution in Linux. For the time being I simply boot windows to watch my morning news and then boot back into linux when it's done. Sounds stupid I know, but I've wasted too much time fiddling with half-assed solutions.

berbae: I just installed mplayerplug-in 3.40 and tested it out, and I am getting the same results - absolutely no change. Not a single embedded video works.

Anyone have any ideas?

berbae: I forgot to answer some of your questions.

>Have you try vo=gl ?

Yes, no change.

>And the file name is '~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf'

I know. It was a typo.

>Have you the good graphic driver installed and running ?

Yes, my graphics driver is working perfectly (direct rendering and all) - it gives me no trouble.

>Do the CNN videos works ?
>It's a good reference site to test the streaming videos ?

Yes, the CNN videos work, but they are using flashplayer so they have nothing to do with mplayerplug-in

Anyone have any ideas?

For the CNN test I didn't realize they changed the streaming mode to use now flash player; before that change, the videos could be viewed with the mplayer plugin.

Now I remember, once I had a problem with the files in the ~/.mplayer directory :
What I did then was to rename ~/.mplayer to ~/.mplayer.bak and let mplayer and mplayer plugin recreate default files in a new ~/.mplayer directory.
After it had be recreated you can put the old mplayerplug-in.conf file in it.
Try that, for me it worked then.
I hope you will also be able to have it work again for you.
My mplayerplug-in.conf :
And I have this in the 'config' file :