Embedded Videos Still Wont Play In Mozilla Browser

[Kelly L. Fulks]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Opps. sorry, fogot to change subject the first time.
> 
> --- Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:16:10 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 7
>> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>>>> Leonard Chatagnier Wrote: snip
>>> Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
>>> Leonard,
>>> I have Mozilla Firefox installed with the MPlayer
>> Plug-in from the
>>> repositories and I can play video fine.  I even
>> went
>>> to the yahoo site
>>> that you referred to back in your original post to
>> verify that this 
>>> worked.
>> Yes, I could play them with firefox(default) and
>> swiftfox too, but I want to use the mozilla browser
>> which doesn't play them. I think the problem is that
>> Ubuntu/Kubuntu supports the default firefox but not
>> so
>> much the mozilla browser. I wonder if anyone in
>> Kubuntu land uses the mozilla browser?
>> I have mozilla-mplayer installed and can't find
>> mplayerplug-in in the cached programs to install.
>> Kevin DeKorte, from mplayerplug-in development user
>> list has suggested I install it from the Kubuntu
>> mirrors or from Debian. However. its not in the
>> cache
>> and I have universe, multiverse, backports,
>> automatix,
>> cipherfunk, canonical and wine.budgetdedicated in my
>> sources.list.
>> What mirror do I need to add to sources.list to get
>> mplayerplug-in? According to Mr. DeKorte it
>> conflicts
>> with mozilla-mplayer.
>>
>>> The application/x-mplayer2 entry does not appear
>> in
>> either of the
>>> locations that you reference.  However, there were
>> other video type
>>> plug-ins that I removed earlier for other reasons.
>> That may be the
>>> difference.  The only plug-ins that I have for
>> Firefox are:
>>
>>> Java Plug-in
>>> Shockwave Flash 7.0
>>> Google VLC Multimedia (mplayerplug-in 3.17)
>>> QuickTime Plug-in 6.0
>>> RealPlayer 9.0 (mplayerplug-in 3.17)
>>> Windows Media Player Plug-in (mplayerplug-in 3.17)
>>> mplayerplug-in 3.17
>> I have these(later version on some) and mozplugger
>> as
>> shown by Help>about plugins, in the mozilla browser.
>> How do you remove(feel stupid asking but don't know)
>> the plugins you don't want? Just remove them from
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins? I think most of them came
>> in
>> via moziller-mplayer. Should I remove it? Ari
>> Pollack
>> said to remove a bunch too but left the discorse
>> before sayhing how. I really don't know the corret
>> way
>> to do this.
>>
>>> I am using Firefox 1.5.0.5 originally installed
>> from
>> the repositories
>>> and upgraded as needed.  This is on a fresh
>> install
>> of 6.0.6 LTS (dapper).
>>
>> I'm using a fresh install of kubuntu dapper with
>> kubuntu.desktop installed and upgraded to 6.0.
>> 6-1.
>>
>>> I hope that this helps you sort out your issue. 
>> It
>> should at least 
>>> give
>>> you a known working configuration from which you
>> can
>> build.
>>
>> Thanks for your input. I think we're getting closer
>> to
>> the real issue but you can see from above that I'm a
>> little lost in the details.
>>
>>> -- 
>>> Kelly L. Fulks
>>> Home Account
>>> near Huntsville, AL
>> Leonard Chatagnier
>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>>
> 
> 

OK, here goes.  You seem to be correct about the Mozilla browser.  I
have exactly the same configuration with the Mozilla Browser that I have
for Firefox (meaning the same plug-ins) and the video doesn't play in
Mozilla.  I get the funky little puzzle piece and when I click on it I
get a pop-up window that states that this application type
(application/x-mplayer2) can only be viewed with the appropriate player.
 Well, I have application/x-mplayer2 application type defined under
"Windows Media Player Plug-in" (mplayerplug-in 3.17), but it still
doesn't play at all.

As for removing plug-ins, it depends upon how you installed them.  If
you installed them as a .deb package, then you should remove the
package.  If you manually installed them, then you probably should
delete them from the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  Anything installed with
mozilla-mplayer will be marked with the mplayerplug-in in the
about:plugins window.  And there are several that come from it.

There seems to be a major difference in how Mozilla handles this plug-in
versus how Firefox handles it.  I don't know what that difference is as
I don't use Mozilla (this is the first time it has been used on this
system since the install).  I have a web-page (personal on an intranet)
with embedded video and I tried to change the mime-type on the video to
several different types and none of them worked with Mozilla but any of
them worked with Firefox.  I don't have swiftfox installed, so I can't
say anything about it.

-- 
Kelly L. Fulks
Home Account
near Huntsville, AL