(Not)Playing Embedded Videos With Mozilla Browser

[Roshan Mansinghani]

On 8/21/06, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Sorry. Forgot to change the subject from the Digest on
> the first reply.
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> > Roshan Mansinghani Wrote:
> > I just went to the site and the gxine browser plugin
> > worked.  Will this do
> > or do you NEED to use the mplayer plugin?
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> > Also, a general question:  if there are multiple
> > browser plugins installed
> > for the same media type (ie, gxine plugin, vlc
> > plugin, mplayer plugin) how
> > do we tell the browser (either mozilla, firefox, or
> > konqueror) which plugin
> > to use?  Is this defined in the mime-type section?
> >
> I see you have been busy on the Digest. Thanks for
> coming back. I prefer mplayerplug-in because it has
> worked well for me in the past. However, to view
> embedded videos I could except anything.
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> Re: a general question, I'm not sure; I think so. I
> know I installed them, vlc, gxine, moxilla-mplayer,
> etc. And, I don't know how to tell mozilla which one
> to use. I've only heard about extensions since coming
> to Ubuntu/Kubuntu from Debian and my reading/googling
> on it seemed specific to firefox only. This may be my
> problem. In "file associations->applications and
> video, I've added the nsplugin viewer(top) to
> application/x-mplayer2 and to all the video entries
> relating to windows media player wmv, etc. Thats about
> all I know about telling mozilla which plugin to use.
> Mozilla's about plugins lists: Shockwave Flash,
> Default Plugin, Google VLC multimedia plugin 1.0,
> QuickTime Plug-in 6.0, RealPlayer 9, Windows Media
> Player Plugin,
> mplayerplug-in 3.17, Shockwave Flash, Java(TM) Plug-in
> 1.5.0_06-b05 and the java and shockwave flash entries
> don't reflect the latest versions I've installed.
> Sorry for all the info but this is the area I'm
> lacking and googling hasn't help me to understand it
> any better.
> Remember, mozilla is the browser I want to use and
> firefox does play the videos for me.


So what it sounds like  is that mplayer plugin works in firefox but not
mozilla.  Perhaps a bug report should be filed with the developers of
mplayer plugin?  Before doing that, you should probably check that what you
are experiencing is consistent across distributions.  That way the mplayer
plugin developers aren't bothered with something that is K/ubuntu specific.

Thanks again for your help,
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> Leonard Chatagnier
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