What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. can not play streams from apple.com, nasatv bascially any where
windowsmedia player, real, or quicktime
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
a stream to be played.  just a gray screen

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8 gnome-mplayer-0.9.8, gentoo x86 kernel 2.6.30-r8

Please provide any additional information below.