When I stream videos from a site(any site) they just freakin stop sometimes and wont start up. The buffer will be all the way done and everything is good…and they just stop. Watching a online video should not be so freakin difficult!! Please understand my irritation, ive been fighting to watch some videos online for 3 days now. All i get back from responses is “Well, mine works.”. Thats wonderful and in no way any help what so ever. Im beginning to think no matter what guide you use, what updates and repos you turn on and off, what packman vs lib and vlc vs mplayer plugin you use…these simple processes of just simply watching a web hosted video will just never ever run smooth. Its a joke and there is no punchline thats making it worth while.
Are you kidding me! I installed the system updates and now my sound doesn’t work for anything but mplayer >< This is so freakin lame.
This is a perenial problem with Linux. The simple fact of the matter is the developers of web sites optimize their sites to stream to Microsoft Windows, and many also optimize their stream to work for MS-Explorer and not Firefox. They do NOT even consider streaming to Linux PCs.
So various Linux developers and packagers try to make available various applications to solve the streaming problem, even though the web site coders make NO EFFORT to ensure their streams will work for Linux. Again, the web site (streaming media) developers DO test them against Windows. And they often put protections on their stream to ensure their streams are difficult to copy , and this can impact operating systems such as Linux.
Hence when YOU ask for help, its simply IMPOSSIBLE to give help, unless you provide us the very information that irritates you to provide.
Thats simply the way it is.
Short of providing the information requested, or short of installing an MS-Windows Operating System under something like Virtual Box, then if you are not willing to provide the information requested, IMHO you have no other option but to not use Linux for streaming video. (or to figure it out for your self, which is presumeably NOT an option as you are asking for help because you could not sort it).
I lost my crystal ball in the last stock market crash, and I have yet to meet anyone who has a functional crystal ball. Hence that information is needed if you want online help.
Do you have any friends who are Linux guru’s who can help you?
No one I know uses it except me. What is this virtual box your talking about? Would the stream my videos without the visual/audio problems?
also going back to windows is a sketchy option. When i installed suse on this maching and vista was deleted it shrank a partion and now when i run vista after about 2 days i will no longer load do too a crcdisk.sys error. This problem is only fixed with a reformat which in turn just continues the cycle in another 2 .days.
Make sure you have these installed first:
make
gcc
kernel-source
Download the .rpm
Then from su terminal in the location of the .rpm do:
rpm - ihv Virt{TAB}to auto complete
see here for some instructions
VirtualBox Installation - openSUSE
particularly adding yourself to users
Or open YaST -> Security and Users -> UserManagement, and edit your user and add them to the vboxusers group. To do this, select your user name, click on Edit, switch to the Details tab and check the vboxusers check box.
So after my rant, here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/general-chit-chat/415496-who-do-newcomers-give-up-linux-11.html#post1997648
I decided to try and solve the problem, So I did this:
stephen@linux-oqc9:~> sudo zypper install mplayerplug-in
root's password:
Retrieving repository 'Packman Repository' metadata [done]
Building repository 'Packman Repository' cache [done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE:Factory:Contrib' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE:Factory:Contrib' cache [done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' cache [done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW package is going to be installed:
mplayerplug-in
Overall download size: 179.0 K. After the operation, additional 1.8 M will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]: y
Retrieving package mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1.i586 (1/1), 179.0 K (1.8 M unpacked)
Retrieving: mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1.i586.rpm [done]
Installing: mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1 [done]
Additional rpm output:
warning: /var/cache/zypp/packages/Packman Repository/i586/mplayerplug-in-3.55-0.pm.1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9a795806
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 is not a symbolic link
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 is not a symbolic link
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libtorrent-rasterbar.so.1 is not a symbolic link
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 is not a symbolic link
Now, If I click on a listen again link on the BBC Website, FireFox Crashes… ie disappears completley!!
Any clues, please…
What else did you do? Just installing mplayerplug-in is not going to crash firefox. You have done something else.
Try starting a new .mozilla folder
Just rename existing one .mozilla_old
Now try. Vanilla FF
Nothing… Honest! I did the zypper, and got the warnings about “not a sym link”… Went back to firefox>BBC>listen again and clicked a programme, Pouf! FF disappears. If I relaunch it, it says closed unexpectedly, do you want to restore the open tabs, click yes, FF restarts, I try again, and … crash.
What other firefox plugins do you have installed? Can you pass the BBC link that is giving you this problem?
That web site still plays fine for me. I note you have Helix plugin installed. I do not have that. Do you REALLY need that, or is it installed “just in case” ?? If you don’t REALLY need it, then try removing it. Restart firefox. Test.
Its also possible some of your Fire fox extensions are causing a problem. Do you have an excessive number of extensions?
Oh well Ty for the help CPU. I disabled ALL plug-ins and then added in just the mplayer one and Hey presto, it works. Trouble is I can’t stop it! (except by issuing killall mplayer)rotfl!rotfl!rotfl!