Hello,
I have a very strange problem for which I would like some guidance.
I successfully implemented this Download Video Hack modification and it works great; That is, it works great for clients running Windows with Windows Media Player. However, videos cease functioning once this hack is implemented on clients running Linux with the MPlayer Plug-In For Firefox. I have tested this extensively with CentOS 5 running MPlayer version 1.0rc2 along with Mplayer Plug-In version 3.45. I compiled both Mplayer and the Mplayer Plug-In from source and they both otherwise work great.
I have two websites running very similar copies of Coppermine. I discovered that when I implemented the Download Video Hack on both websites that the MPlayer Plug-In quit working for both websites and that the Mplayer Plug-In began working again when I reverted back to the code without the Download Video Hack. So, to demonstrate, I have set one website up with the Download Video Hack and set the other website up without the Download Video Hack. Here are a couple of samples of each:
Two Videos Without Download Video Hack can be viewed at:
http://www.dickens.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=24Two Videos With Download Video Hack:
http://georgiajets.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=24http://georgiajets.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=31The dickens.com site has not implemented the Download Video Hack whereas the georgiajets.org site has. So, playing any of the videos on either of the sites will demonstrate what I am describing. Please keep in mind that the client must be running MPlayer with the MPlayer Plug-In for Firefox in order to replicate this problem.
This problem may very well be caused by an issue with the MPlayer Plug-In instead of Coppermine but I wanted to see if anybody had observed this phenomona and whether there is a known work around. I say this primarily since the Download Video Hack appears to work fine under Windows with Windows Media Player. I am hopeful that someone has already found a solution. I have played around with the code some but I cannot make it work. All the while, I will readily admit that this hack shouldn't affect any media player.
I hope that this is the proper thread under which to post this issue.
Many thanks in advance for your reply.
Gordon Dickens