video plugins for Firefox (Gerald I. Evenden)

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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Gerald I. Evenden <geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Monday 03 August 2009 11:08:31 am Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
> > I'm running Firefox /3.0.12 on hardy 8.04 x86_64.
> >
> > A few months ago I tried to update plugins to handle some of the newer
> > videos but had a great deal of difficulty and thought I had lost Firefox
> > altogether.
> >
> > Has anything changed to facilitate FlashPlayer and other updates for the
> > x86_64 series.  Most of the Google results are dated and I hove no idea
> > which may be sufficiently recent to be applicable.
> >
> > Pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank-you.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I'm running FF 3.0.12 on jaunty on a 64amd machine. I have not as yet
> found
> > any video or audio stream that won't run properly for me, I can't say
> I've
> > sorted this directly myself, just added in whatever plug-ins/extensions
> as
> > asked for by FF. Here's the complete list of add-ons I now have.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Plug -ins:
> >
> > Default plugin for unix/linux
> >
> > DivX Browser plug-in
> >
> > gxine starter plugin
> >
> > IcedTea Java Web Browser Plugin
> >
> > mplayerplugin-in 3.55
> >
> > QuickTime Plugin 7.4.5
> >
> > Realplayer 9
> >
> > Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
> >
> > Windows Media Player Plug-in
> >  (mplayerplugin 3.55 video player plug-in for quick-time, realplayer,
> etc,
> > etc streams
> >
> > Extensions:
> >
> > Google Preview 3.22
> >
> > Java Console 6.0.02
> >
> > Quickjava 0.4.2.1
> >
> > Javascript options 1.2.6
> >
> > Xmarks 3.1.0
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > My memory is bad, I may have installed mplayer and java from the repos
> > as well as the above. I can't say how many of them are actually required
> > to do the job.
> > The only comment I can positively make is - don't have Amarok running at
> > all - it stops all other video/audio players in their tracks in my
> > experience. Hope this helps
> > brian
>
> What makes me most curious is how you obtained your list of plugins?  Did
> you
> keep a list as you installed them or are you able to get FF to regurgitate
> a
> list of what is installed.
>
> The directory /usr/lib/firefox/plugins does not give me a clue as to what
> is
> installed.  And my browsing around the options on FF's toolbar does not
> seem
> to give me a clue either.
>
> As a minor side issue, I have no idea what "Linux 10" and whether I am at
> that
> level with Ubuntu 8.+.  There are far too many layers of version/level
> numbers for my pea-pickin' mind to follow.  :-(
>
> Thanks for the info and at least someone seems to be running with much the
> same system as mine.
>
>
In firefox go to tools then addons and you can see and manage addons.
Currently I am running 9.04 and ff 3.5 and so far have no video problems.
the one difficulty I had simply required I download gstreamer.
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