Sydney Morning Herald video in firefox/ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 19 May 2007 01:26:29 +1000
Peter Schwenke <peter at bluetoad.com.au> wrote:

> If you follow the instructions at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats it works and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/StreamingVideo it works.
> 
> I use totem-xine and totem-xine-firefox-plugin

totem-xine-firefox-plugin  no longer exists in Feisty - I used to use
totem-xine with that plugin with some success, but the new plugin is
totem-mozilla  for both backends, which does not appear to work as well. 

sudo apt-get -s install totem-xine-firefox-plugin 
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[snips]
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Note, selecting totem-mozilla instead of totem-xine-firefox-plugin


> 
> From memory when you install the plugin it might want to try to
> uninstall ubuntu-desktop.  You can reinstall that using aptitude.

Again, this used to be true, but it no longer is, since ubuntu-desktop now
"recommends" totem ( which by default is totem-gstreamer.) 

$ apt-cache depends ubuntu-desktop | grep totem
  Recommends: totem
  Recommends: totem-mozilla

There is no longer a "hard" dependency on one backend over the other.

Peter