sermat

Glad it worked.

serge.

Hi to all: Just wanted to ask if anyone knows if the "One" versions can be booted from its ISO located on hard drive? I have done it with the "Free", and it's so easy to do, but I'm not successful with the "One" versions.

Regards,

serge.

Guys: Thank you all very much for such great response and help. I'm marking this thread as "SOLVED" because after reading your expriences, I'm convinced that it is the cbs.com problem. So for now, this site is off my "to visit" list.

Thanks again, and best regards,

serge.

Hi neddie: I'm at home, i.e., no "corporate" firewall, and even the Mandriva's Firewall is disabled (i.e., "Allow everything").

Regards,

serge.

OK, I just tried to play the same site using Debian Etch and it behaves exactly the same as Mandriva, i.e., it doesn't play. So maybe the problem is with the site itself. Can anybody confirm this? I'm trying the first video on the top-right of the page.

Many thanks.

Hi daniewicz: Thanks for helping.

Which browser are you using?

Firefox, ver 2.0.0.11. Flash is ver. 9,0,115,0. I think this is the latest version of flash available.

Have you installed the flash plugin?

Yes. Note that other sites requiring flash, like youtube, play just fine on my system.

Do you have a specific error message?

No. The screen with CBS logo pops up, but nothing plays.

Regards,

serge.

Thanks scarecrow for helping.

Toy a bit with your flashplugin settings.

How do I do that?

Would someone be kind and try the videos from this site. I cannot play them:

www.cbs.com/daytime/yr

Regards,

serge.

AussieJohn: Thank you so much for taking time to give me such detailed instructions - Very kind of you. OK, just before seeing your reply, I was "fooling around" with couple of things on my own, and here is what solved the problem (well, I did a number of things, and maybe something else contributed to the solution also, but the following is the "thing" that really did it):

Open MCC -> Local Disks -> Mange disk partitions, then open the sda (my USB hard drive) tab, then click on Toggle to Expert Mode button and then click on Options button and tick the "user" check box (this allows an ordinary user to mount the file system). And that was it - it WORKS now.

Thanks again John for your help.

Best regards to all, and BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO MANDRIVA for an excellent product.

serge.

thanks pmpatrick: yes, I followed your instructions to the letter, and no change; i.e., I still get "permission denied" notice.

BUT, I do not want to bug you for help on this item any more. As I mentioned, I can mount my USB hard drive from the command line just fine. I'm just a bit surprised that Mandriva would exhibit this kind of negative behavior. Other distros I tried on this same PC and USB hard drive had no problems mounting it by just plugging the drive in.

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Hi scarecrow: I'm sorry for being an idiot here, but when I plug in the USB drive, the only thing that happens is that a window pops up, telling me: "A new medium has been detected. What do you want to do?" So I'm not sure how do I do what you suggested me to do?

Again, sorry for my lack of knowledge here.

serge.

Hi to all. Just installed 2008.0 and it looks excellent. The only thing so far is that when I plug in my USB hard drive, a little window pops up telling me "Permission denied". But when I use command line to mount this drive it mounts perfectly.

Many thanks,

serge.

Thanks scarecrow ! I'm in complete agreement. I will be re-installing 2008.0 this evening.

Best regards,

serge.

Sorry,sorry,sorry, YES, I first installed 2008.0, and then "upgraded" it to the latest cooker (Alpha) last night.

Hi: I just installed 2008.0. I also installed mplayer/mplayerplug-in. Now, when I go to pgatour.com and try to play a video, it plays fine the first time. But, it fails to play the second time. The only cure is to "# killall pulseaudio", and then it plays the video again. Anyone can comment on this.

NOTE: earlier versions of Mandriva never had this problem.

Many thanks,

serge.

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Thanks Greg2: Followed your instructions, and now it starts playing, but only the advertisment at the beginning, and then it says "Stopped". IOW, it doesn't play the actual news video. Anything I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

serge.

Hi to all, and a big congratulations on the wonderful 2008.0. Everything is perfect, except I do not know what to do to play news videos from bbc.co.uk? I installed mplayer and win32codecs from plf. I also installed the realplayer 10 GOLD from real.com. Any comments/help will be greatly appreciated.

OK, after googling for a bit, the suggested solution seems to be to pass the "lfs" option to the smbmount command.

No, I'm not using wireless. Also to note that my home server is not Windows, but Mandriva 2006.

Hi to all: Is it me, or other people encountered similar problem: I CAN transfer small files to my home server just fine (using smb4k). But doing same with a dvd iso file (i.e. a large file) FAILS. I'm on Mandriva 2007.1. Just to note (and this is not a plug for sidux at all - I still love Mandriva) I tried the same with SIDUX and it worked fine.

OK found the problem: It was the location of the codecs !!! That is, I had them in /usr/local/lib/codecs, but the location that works is /usr/lib/codecs !!!

Thanks to all for such a quick help.

Regards,

serge.

Here is the snippet of what it prints:

....

Error while parsing chunk header

...

Video: no video

Starting playback...

A: 9.7 (09.7) of 11.0 (11.0) 0.3% 0%

Yes, the codecs (essential) is installed. These are the two mplayer versions I've tried:

MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

MPlayer dev-SVN-r23025-4.1.1 © 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

No idea at this point what's wrong on my side, but thank you very much for the help.

serge.

Thanks ffi: Ijust tried kaffeine from the command line and no luck on my side.

Hi Mhn: This is interesting: It must be then something wrong with my mplayer. I am using the mplayer from svn that I just compiled an hour ago, and it all looked OK during compilation.

Would you tell me what mplayer are you using (version)?

Many thanks,

serge.

Hi to all. Would somebody be kind and try to play this stream (it is from the popular golf site pgatour.com):

mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/pgatour/video/pga-tour/sod/2007/04/19/sod_07neworleans_rnd1_7th_eag_dimarco.pgatour.hp.wmv

I tried all players known to me and none can play it.

Many thanks and best regards,

serge.