Embedded Videos Still Wont Play In Mozilla Browser

[Eduard Bonet]

En/na Leonard Chatagnier ha escrit:

>On Tuesday 05 September 2006 06:32, Leonard Chatagnier
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>>>Sorry Roger, guess I didn't make myself clear on
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>>>mirror request. I do have the multiverse repo and
>>>mozilla-mplayer in cache and only recently removed
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>>>try the gxineplugin. Roger DeKorte,
>>>mplayer-plugin-devel fame, suggested I install
>>>"mplayerplug-in", actual file name, from the
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>Kubuntu
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>>>distro or from Debian. Searching doesn't locate it
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>>>Kubuntu and I don't know which Deb disto it would
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>>>in. Guess it might be in Deb Sid multimedia or
>>>similiar and thought Kubuntu users might know.
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>Kevin
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>>>was informed of this 2 days ago but hasn't gotten
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>bact
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>>>to me on it
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>>Mozilla-mplayer is the package that provides
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>mplayer-plugin.  If you 
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>>install 
>>or have installed mozilla-mplayer, you have
>>mplayer-plugin installed.  
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>>I'll ask if you have the w32codecs installed as
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>those are the actual 
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>>codecs 
>>that allow any player to play wmv, asf, ect. type
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>files along with 
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>>~R~
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>Hey Roger,
>Yes, I have w32codecs, also libavcodecs(think that's
>right) and maybe some others. Sorry, I overlooked it
>on last reply.
>Re: mplayerplug-in and mozilla-mplayer. I am aware
>that mozilla-mplayer(kubuntu 3.17) provides the
>plugin. I had it installed but mozilla didn't play the
>embeds. A user, maybe you as I'm all confused over
>this issue, said he could play the embeds with mozilla
>using gxineplugin so I rmed mozilla-mplayer and
>installed qxineplugin which didn't work for me and it
>was in the about plugins list. Kevin DeKortes, of
>mplayer-plugin-develop fame, suggested I remove
>mozilla-mplayer and install mplayerplug-in which is
>not in Kubuntu distro mirrors as far as I can tell. I
>did find an rpm googling,
>mplayerplug-in-3.30-fc5.i386.rpm and converted it to a
>deb with wajig rpmtodeb, and installed it with dpkg
>-i, but it doesn't show up in about plugins. I can run
>the apt show or wajig list and it shows to be
>installed but I can't find it with locate.
>I will try to reinstall mozilla-mplayer eventually but
>I want a newer version(had v3.25 before leaving Deb)
>to reinstall and also want to get some feedback from
>Kevin on just what he wants me to try. I did add a deb
>mirror that should have gotten me a later version:
>#Sid Debian Multimedia (packages, GPG key:
>07DC563D1F41B907)
>deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
>Update gave no error for the mirror after adding the
>key. However, apt search still shows v3.17, the
>kubuntu  uptodate version. I'm not that familiar
>adding the gpg key and may have an error.
>so, that's were I stand. Of course, I'm very much open
>to any suggestion you might have and will try them out
>while waiting on Kevin.
>Do appreciate your help,
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>Leonard Chatagnier
>lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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For if you still have the problem, try putting symbolic links or just 
copy the plugins files into your folder /.mozilla/plugins

Restart the browser and check with about:plugins because they should be there.