Sydney Morning Herald video in firefox/ubuntu

[Michael Noiesen]

Daniel

you may also need codecs I added repo from this site for that.

http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com

Michael Noiesen wrote:
> Daniel
>
> There was a user one freenode channel having issue with Firefox and 
> Mplayer. totem plugin was also installed so the following action was 
> taken to fix the problem. In terminal..
>
> sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla
>
> Now you need to reinstalled mplayer plugin for Mozilla and now your 
> mplayer should work in firefox.
>
> If you don’t want to uninstall totem plugin, you can try this in a terminal
>
> cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
>
> sudo mkdir oldtotemfiles
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> sudo mv libtotem* oldtotemfiles
>
> Now you need to reinstall mplayer plugin for firefox using the following 
> command
>
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall mozilla-mplayer
>
> This should get mplayer to work
>
> Restart Firefox for affects to take place
>
>
>
> Daniel Nixon wrote:
>   
>> Hi list,
>> Can anyone help me get smh.com.au video's working in Ubuntu 7.04? I've
>> tried with the mozilla plugins for vlc, totem, mplayer but no luck.
>> I'd be prepared to use any jerry rigged sort of hack, video downloader
>> extension for firefox, etc.
>>
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