Embedded Videos Still Wont Play In Mozilla Browser

[Leonard Chatagnier]

On Monday 04 September 2006 17:30, Leonard Chatagnier
wrote:
> Well, thanks for the tip Roger. I have gzine
installed
> and did a "show". Saw that gzineplugin was
recommended
> and installed it and also noted that I had all the
> depends. I rmed pluginreg.dat from $HOME/.mozilla
and
> restarted mozilla browser. Clicked on an AP news
video
> on my dsl.sbc.yahoo home page. The yahoo news video
> player popped up with a black background in the
player
> window, then nothing. The player window doesn't
> respond to any right/left click of the mouse. I also
> tried starting gxine player and downloading the
video
> to see if that would play it but only succeded in
> crashing the player trying to figure out how to get
it
> to read the uri. Something must be grossly screwed
up
> in my Kubuntu setup but I haven't a clue. The
> gxineplugin is listed in Moz, Help>about plugins and
> it does have the "application/x-mplayer2" entry in
it
> but doesn't have a file type wmv listed which i
think
> is required to play the videos. The file
> types(Suffixes) listed for mplayer2 are asf, asx,
asp.
> Does your gxineplugin show any wmv, wmx or wmp
> suffixes for mplayer2? BTW, could you offer a
kubuntu
> mirror that would allow me to download
> "mplayerplug-ins" specifically not mozilla-mplayer.
I
> asked about this in a previous post/reply but so far
> no response. Kevin DeKorte, of
> mplayerplug-in-development users list, suggested
that
> I remove all the plugins and install mplayerplug-in
> instead.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

The mplayer plugin is in the multiverse repository. 
It is called 
mozilla-mplayer.  I haven't tested it specifically in
mozilla but it 
works in 
firefox.  Just to ask, you do have the w32codecs
installed, yes?  
-- 
~R~
Sorry Roger, guess I didn't make myself clear on the
mirror request. I do have the multiverse repo and
mozilla-mplayer in cache and only recently removed to
try the gxineplugin. Roger DeKorte,
mplayer-plugin-devel fame, suggested I install
"mplayerplug-in", actual file name, from the Kubuntu
distro or from Debian. Searching doesn't locate it in
Kubuntu and I don't know which Deb disto it would be
in. Guess it might be in Deb Sid multimedia or
similiar and thought Kubuntu users might know. Kevin
was informed of this 2 days ago but hasn't gotten bact
to me on it

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net