video plugins for Firefox (Gerald I. Evenden)

[clay weber]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> uriah heep said the following at 08/03/2009 12:31 PM :
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> Maybe this thread is a great chance to arrive at a definitive answer to the
> question:
>   I am running 64-bit jaunty. *Exactly* what packages do I need to have
> installed in order for video to work properly in FF?
> 
> I am in more or less the same boat as Donn. What used to be a working
> system now only works on some sites and/or some videos. Konq seems to work
> great everywhere, but that's not my browser of choice.
> 
> All the packages I have installed are official ones, and one would hope
> that if one were to have somehow *more* than one needs it wouldn't break
> anything, but I kind-of suspect that that hope is misplaced. The fact that
> Konq works perfectly seems to indicate that nothing is fundamentally wrong,
> it's just that somehow FF isn't finding the right software to handle videos
> in some circumstances.
> 
>   Doc
> 
> 

Adobe has a 64-bit flash plugin, but it has to be installed manually, ie 
uninstall any existing flash plugin/nspluginwrapper packages already 
installed on your system, and copy the 64-bit plugin file to your 
~/.mozilla/plugins folder. I don't see why it wouldn't work in Hardy.

http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/install-64-bit-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-904/


clay