MPlayer, holy crap, and what just happend?

I was reading through the threads about modern DVDs not playing for some people, as well as trying to check out on-line videos, and I found out that MPlayer and MPlayer-plugin doesn't behave well anymore with most things outside of the local hard drive. Nothing changed except software updates. Both MPlayer from the repos and MPlayer-svn are having the same problem. This is on both 32 and 64 bit.
Does any video here work for anyone using MPlayer-plugin?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/program.html
Does any modern commercial DVD work for anyone? This is a more important to me. Usually I can dump the contents of DVDs on to the hard drive through MPlayer, but it can't even see the discs now.

I've always found the Mplayer plugin to be hit and miss, but I probably don't use it as much as most people here. The PBS videos didn't work at first due to geographic restrictions. Then I used a proxy and the Mplayer plugin tried to play it but it stopped after 1 second. The videos might have some sort of DRM that even Mplayer can't crack yet. The plugin still works for some things though. For example there's this video: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/14970.html
Encrypted DVDs still work perfectly for me (of course Mplayer doesn't render the menus it just goes straight to the content). This crap better not happen to me. Btw, if we can pinpoint when DVDs stopped working and when streaming video stopped working, maybe we can find a change made to the PKGBUILD at that time to diagnose the problem.
EDIT: That gametrailers thingy seems to require that flash be installed even to play the quick time and wmv versions of it now. Anyway, I was able to play all the PBS videos, not with Mplayer but with MediaPlayerConnectivity! I discovered this in a really old post by Kern: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … 446?id=446. It's amazing. Instead of embedding a substandard player in firefox, it just embeds a little panel that can be used to launch it in whatever media player you want with whatever arguments you want. It also says the "real" path to the file and gives a download link. The mplayer plugin was hit and miss but using this to call gmplayer works amazingly. It's also surprisingly fast given that I was behind a proxy.
Last edited by ConnorBehan (2008-08-16 22:17:56)

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