missing plugins

[Mike Shaw]

On 11/6/07, Rod Joyce <werepenguin at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 18:44:25 Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 16:50:08 Greg Booth wrote:
> > > On 11/6/07, Mark Fraser <kubuntu at mfraz74.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 07:41:38 Edmund Laugasson wrote:
> > > > > > hello! community, I'm unable to watch videos using Firefox
> browser
> > > > > > it complains about missing plugins, i've read some postings on
> this
> > > > > > issue and even tried   using adobe flash to no success i'll
> really
> > > > > > appreciate any input on this issue and perhaps a walk-through on
> > > > > > how to install the tar..gz I'm using the Kubuntu 7.10 feisty.
> I'm
> > > > > > still new with this OS and I find it very interesting so far,
> i'm a
> > > > > > windows user transitioning to Linux.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) Add the Medibuntu repository -
> > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu - see the chapter
> "Adding
> > > > > the Repositories"
> > > >
> > > > <Snip>
> > > >
> > > > > Now if you go to somewhere and would like to see embedded videos,
> > > > > mplayerplug-in should do the trick. Also you may during video
> > > > > playback make right mouse click on the video and gain access to
> > > > > mplayerplug-in settings. On right bottom corner you may see small
> > > > > button, which gives the opportunity to switch full screen mode.
> You
> > > > > may also try usual mplayer keyboard shortcuts. Also see the man
> > > > > mplayer page for further instructions and possibilities.
> > > >
> > > > I'd managed to get most of the plugins working apart from one -
> > > > RealPlayer - any tips on installing it? I just get a blank box when
> I
> > > > try to view the videos on the BBC's website.
> > >
> > > Tried
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install mozilla-helix-player
> > >
> > > yet ?
> >
> > I tried that, but the helix player doesn't support streaming or even the
> > 3gp files from my mobile phone.
>
> Try Kaffeine - on first run you should get a wizard asking if you want it
> to
> be the default application for rtsp and Windows media streams. As long as
> you've installed the windows dll package from the Mplayer site (and IIRC
> Medibuntu) it should work fine. If you've already run Kaffeine, fear not,
> all
> you need to do is to remove ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc - the system
> will
> assume that you are running Kaffeine for the first time the next time you
> start it.
> I can't get RealPlayer to work at all on Kubuntu, although I've had no
> trouble
> running it with Fedora and openSUSE. I am fairly sure that Helix is purely
> open source; it won't run any proprietary formats at all, not even Real
> ones
> even though Real support its development.
>
> Rod
>
> I was finally able to get Realplayer working after I uninstalled mplayer
and mplayer-plugin.  I also needed to create the following links in my local
mozilla plugins directory(~/.mozilla/plugins):

lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user     35 2007-11-01 11:03 nphelix.so ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user     36 2007-11-01 11:04 nphelix.xpt ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt

After that I reinstalled mplayer and mplayer-plugin and everything worked
fine.

Good luck!

Mike
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