Comment 9 for bug 457816

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote : Re: cannot play Quicktime media

If I right-click on the plugin and choose “copy location”, then play the location at the command line using mplayer, I get the following:

Playing http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/media2/nova_eu_3012c01_caps.mov.
Resolving www.pbs.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.pbs.org
Resolving www.pbs.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.pbs.org[149.48.228.121]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 2.50% (8202 bytes)
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Subtitle stream found, -sid 0
No stream found.

So it appears that it’s perhaps trying to play a/the subtitle stream instead of the video stream?