[MPlayer-users] problem accessing BBC news site with mplayer plugin for Firefox
Bob Weeks
bweeks44 at sympatico.ca
Tue Apr 1 19:54:44 CEST 2008
Hello,
I have been trying to resolve a problem with using mplayer plugin for
Firefox to access the BBC News site http://news.bbc.co.uk/.
I do not *know* that it is a bug with mplayer, but I have spent months
on the Ubuntu forums trying to get it resolved. There are also many
reports of problems with mplayer not working with the BBC news site (as
listed by Google), but this may reflect entirely on BBC's implementation
of their video streaming. I have repeatedly contacted BBC with a report
of my problem, but it has never been acknowledged, much less resolved.
(I eventually switched to using RealPlayer, and while there were several
problems with getting it to work, BBC eventually resolved them, more or
less.) It may even be a problem with Firefox, but I'm at a loss. A
more experienced user on the Ubuntu forms suggested I report the problem
to you.
First I should mention that viewers in the UK are NOT experiencing this
problem, which seems to involve the multiple playlists which the BBC is
using to pre-pend advertising to their news video clips for users
outside the UK.
Below is the URL for the link from the above home page to the One-Minute
News summary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6900000/newsid_6903100?redirect=6903113.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&asb=1
Their media player checks to see what player you have selected in its
"Preferences.' For this test I select Windows Media Player.
The first of two video clips is downloaded and plays successfully. It's
an advertisement for Alliance Insurance.
I believe it's played by redirecting to the following URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/world/bb/video/world_bb.asx?ad=1&ct=50
If you put this in the Firefox address bar and link directly to it, the
advertisement also plays successfully. The second (news) video clip
downloads, but only the sound is played, not the video.
If you remove the "ad-1&ct=50" from the above URL and enter it in the
Firefox address bar, the news video (without the advertisement
pre-pended) plays perfectly.
I am not a sophisticated user, and have tried to provide the
documentation you requested for bug reports. as described in "A.6. What
to report Appendix A. How to report bugs."
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html) One item
which I have not provided is the mplayer output (trace?) with verbosity
set to 1. I could not figure out how to do this with mplayer plugin.
Thanks very much
Bob Weeks (bw44)
bweeks44 at sympatico.ca
Here is a listing of my mplayerplug-in.conf file:
vo=x11
ao=alsa
cachesize=4001
cache-percent=35
dload-dir=/home/bob
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=0
enable-gmp=1
enable-dvx=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-smil=0
enable-helix=0
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=1
rtsp-use-tcp=1
rtsp-use-http=0
autoplay=1
black-background=1
download=1
keep-download=0
noembed=0
Below is the other documentation you require. I will be happy to
provide additional documentatin if you will suggest how to gather it.
Ubuntu 7.10
2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1249520 2007-10-24 21:03 /lib/libc-2.6.1.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-01-02 17:20 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
libc-2.6.1.so
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.3 --program-suffix=-4.1
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.18
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.18
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1596.175
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx
constant_tsc up pni monitor tm2 xtpr
bogomips : 3195.62
clflush size : 64
From xorg.config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express
Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
~$ lspci -vv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML
and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00
[VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Region 1: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at d0280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at d0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 30000000-300fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 4: I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 20
Region 4: I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
Region 4: I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 17
Region 4: I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at d0544000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
Region 4: I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: I/O ports at 18d0 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 18c4 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at 18c8 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at 18b0 [size=16]
Region 5: Memory at d0544400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
Region 4: I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1363
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
--
bweeks44 at sympatico.ca
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