Embedded Videos Still Wont Play In Mozilla Browser

[Leonard Chatagnier]

>> snip
> >>>> 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.
> 

Yea! At last I've got a confirmation that there is a
problem with mozilla browser playing embeds with
Kubauntu. It appears I was right that Kubuntu doesn't
support Mozilla browser or at least no one there uses
it very much. So glad you were able to confirm it.
Should I file a bug report with Kubuntu as it appears
to be distro related?

> 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.
> 
I believe thats how I got them. If I uninstall
mozilla-mplayer, I wouldn't have any plugins with 
mplayerplug-in-wmp.so in it except mozplugger 1.7.1.
Guess I could purge mozilla-mplayer and see what
happens as it's not that hard to reinstall it. That
should keep me busy until I hear from Kevin DeKortes
about how to get the latest version of mplayerplug-in
unless you can provide a mirror that carries it. I
used source-o-matic and have all the Kubuntu morrors
to get all the extras but it's not there
.
> 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.
> 
I'm with you on this all the way. I guess I could get
used to firefox, or better swiftfox, but I don't like
them as much as mozilla browser. Agian, should I file
a bug report with Kubuntu. I've only used Debian and
Ubuntu/Kubuntu so I can't say that this wont happen
with other distrs. And it did happen with Debian Sid.
Maybe the next stop is mozilla users list, if I don't
get a solution here or with
mplayerplug-in-development. Been there before but its
been a long time ago.
I appreciate your input, Kelly. It's been helpful and
I'll try removing mozilla-mplayer and let everyone
know what happens.
> -- 
> Kelly L. Fulks
> Home Account
> near Huntsville, AL
> 
> 
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Leonard Chatagnier
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