Embed doesn't work at first and sometimes videos doens't load properly

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use this greasemonkey script -> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771
2. try playing a video on youtube

GNOME-Mplayer is started, but not embedded (it opens in a new window).
If you go fullscreen and return back, the player is properly embedded.

Also, sometimes the videos arent' played (GNOME-Mplayer loads the cache,
but at the end the file is not played). Trying to reload (or selecting
another video quality) sometimes makes the player working.

I know that it could be an issue with the greasemonkey script, but I
noticed the same behaviour outside youtube, ex
http://www.jhepple.com/SampleMovies/asf_to_mpeg-1.mpeg

Arch Linux
aur/gnome-mplayer-svn 1647-1 [installed]
gecko-mediaplayer-svn 367-1 [installed]
firefox 3.6.3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by berseke...@gmail.com on 2 May 2010 at 9:53

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any comments?

Original comment by berseke...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 1:56

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Do you have Verbose Debugging enabled in gnome-mplayer? And is there anything
interesting in .xsession-errors?

The sample movie you sent always works fine for me.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 1:58

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.. i had a little spare time and i worked out on this.. first of all, i had to
apologize for one of the problems: the player didn't embed properly at first 
because
i had checked the option to force it to not embed into preferences. (well, I 
don't
remember to have put this on but anyway, that was the problem). 

The second issue however seems to be related to vdpau. starting firefox from 
console,
with verbose debugging set in gnome-mplayer, shows that video isn't played 
because of
thousands of vdpau errors. I'm using mplayer usually without gui, with
.mplayer/config file properly set up. Any wideo works well if i have it in 
local,
even flv files.
I noticed that gnome-mplayer puts a [gnome-mplayer] profile in the config file, 
with
his settings. anyway, even if I choose another -vo in that file, gnome-mplayer 
keeps
using vdpau, I don't understand why.

If I can make a suggestion, please provide an option to use a custom .config 
file
different from the one that mplayer uses, in order to keep separate the two 
things
(mplayer and gnome-mplayer)

Original comment by berseke...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 3:20

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I managed to solve (or at least, I hope so) by a proper setup of the config 
file.
Anyway if you can accept my suggestion, it will be welcome I think. ;)

Original comment by berseke...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 3:28

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gnome-mplayer will setup the config file properly if you use the gnome-mplayer
preference dialog to set the values.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 3:35

• Changed state: Fixed