i'm using squeeze stable and gnome.

sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play
at all through firefox, but will through epiphany.

if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or
mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so
the download is obviously fine).

it's almost as though some cache or other gets filled up and vids stop
playing. the machine i use is a quad core with 7G memory.

any ideas on what the problem might be?

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On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:38:43 -0700, prad wrote:

> i'm using squeeze stable and gnome.
>
> sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play
> at all through firefox, but will through epiphany.

What do you mean by "don't play"? What's showed instead the video?

> if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or
> mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so
> the download is obviously fine).

Are these videos also flashplayer based movies or different media files
(mpeg, avi...)? Anyway, if you launch the video from command line
probably you will get more information on why it fails to load.

> it's almost as though some cache or other gets filled up and vids stop
> playing. the machine i use is a quad core with 7G memory.
>
> any ideas on what the problem might be?

Firefox has its own cache management system but the video you play
locally is only limited by your system resources and given the specs on
your computer this shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, you can check for your
free space with "df -h".

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Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:38:43 -0700, prad wrote:
>
>> i'm using squeeze stable and gnome.
>>
>> sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play
>> at all through firefox, but will through epiphany.
>
> What do you mean by "don't play"? What's showed instead the video?
>
it loads up, but nothing plays. it freezes and you just see a black
window for movieplayer or mplayer.

>> if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or
>> mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so
>> the download is obviously fine).
>
> Are these videos also flashplayer based movies or different media files
> (mpeg, avi...)? Anyway, if you launch the video from command line
> probably you will get more information on why it fails to load.
>
they are whatever i convert it to. none of them work.

right now it's working again. i will take your suggestion and see what i
can find from the command line when it stops. thx camaleon!


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