From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlAeY-0000U4-0L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:03:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 590AEE0084; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E93AE0084 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C556E65AC4 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:03:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.15 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.15 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.551, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CsZ9uYCfj-0T for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5B865017 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlAeK-0003EK-Is for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:03:00 +0200 Received: from athedsl-380260.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.37.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:03:00 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-380260.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:03:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer and sound in firefox during playback Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:02:38 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <8763btngjo.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-380260.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <8763btngjo.fsf@newsguy.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ff22c68d-651e-4c86-90d5-6497375d46e5 X-Archives-Hash: 49c595c2b44be26518e90c300f0068c2 On 09/09/2009 02:49 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like > quicktime. However, I get no sound. > > Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with > mplayer, works with sound. > > What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? > > I have the gecko-media player installed but I noticed in firefox > options/applications that *.mov files are not mentioned there. > Although quite a few other formats are listed as using gecko. Right-click on the video while it plays and go to the settings dialog. there, make sure you're using an appropriate sound back-end.