Why Embedded Videos Wont Play On Linux?

Thu Aug 3 14:02:19 UTC 2006

Thanks to all of the responders. I'm having trouble
getting my digest and found the replies in the archives.
Therefore the late response.
The Flash 8 issue aside, I have been able to play the
listed sites with firefox(don't like) and rarely with
Mozilla browser with Debian Sid but neither has work
under Ubuntu and Kubuntu Desktop(just installed). I've
tried both global and local setups and perhaps screwed 
something up. Regarding Colin Brace's and albi's replies,
sound like something I need and will check it out.
I'm am confused about all the available plugins and have
all installed, I think, and wonder if that could be 
bugging the issue. I emailed Ari Pollak, maintainer, 
regarding Debian's mozilla-mplayer a while back and he
suggested(adamently) that I uninstall all the plugins and
just use one. He left the discourse(too busy) before we got
anything done. I have played with the setup since installing
Ubuntu & Kubuntu getting the mplayerplug-in to load, buffer
and even say playing but it doesn't. I may recycle several
several times then stop. That's the best I've done with setup.
Any further comments/suggestions are most welcome.
Attached are some related setup files and anyone may send me
a copy of mostly working setup files for mozilla if they wish.
Please forgive the long reply. When I get the digest, that should
stop. Thanks for any followup.
lchata at ubuntu:~/.mplayer$ cat mplayerplug-in.conf
vo=xv,x11
ao=oss
cachesize=8192
cache-percent=20
dload-dir=/home/lchata
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=1
nopauseonhide=1
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0
debug=1
download=1
noembed=0
use-mimetypes=1
framedrop=1
autosync=1
mc=1
black-background=0
user-agent=NSPlayer
lchata at ubuntu:~/.mplayer$

lchata at ubuntu:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -al
total 8152
drwxr-xr-x 3 lchata lchata    4096 2006-08-02 20:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 lchata lchata    4096 2006-08-02 20:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata       0 2006-08-02 19:56 cups-pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lchata lchata     856 2006-08-02 19:56 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lchata lchata 2154768 2006-08-02 19:56 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata   18492 2006-08-02 19:56 libnullplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata   19780 2006-08-02 19:56 libtotem_mozilla.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata   26376 2006-08-02 19:56 mozplugger.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata  254556 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata     981 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata  254684 2006-08-02 19:56 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata     981 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata  254716 2006-08-02 19:56 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata     981 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata  256028 2006-08-02 19:56 mplayerplug-in.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata  255900 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata     981 2006-08-02 19:56
mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata     981 2006-08-02 19:56 mplayerplug-in.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lchata lchata 4750331 2006-08-02 19:56 nppdf.so.pld
-rw-r--r-- 1 lchata lchata    2036 2006-08-02 19:56
x-shockwave-flash.desktop
lchata at ubuntu:~/.mozilla/plugins$

lchata at ubuntu:~/.mplayer$ cat config
#
# MPlayer configuration file
#
# Configuration files are read system-wide
from /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf
# and per user from ~/.mplayer/config, where per-user settings override
# system-wide settings, all of which are overrriden by the command line.
#
# The configuration file settings are the same as the command line
# options without the preceding '-'.
#
# See the CONFIGURATION FILES section in the man page
# for a detailed description of the syntax.

##################
# video settings #
##################

# Specify default video driver (see -vo help for a list).
vo=xv,x11
<snipped all commented out items>
# horizontal frequency range (k stands for 1000)
monitor-hfreq = 30.0k-54k
#
# vertical frequency range
monitor-vfreq = 50-100
#
# standard monitor size, with square pixels
monitoraspect=4:3
#
# Keep the player window on top of all other windows.
ontop=yes
#
##################
# audio settings #
##################
#
# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
ao=oss
# Specify the mixer device.
mixer = /dev/mixer
# Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter.
af=lavcresample=44100

##################
# other settings #
##################

# Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync.
framedrop = yes

# cache settings
#
# Use 8MB input cache by default.
cache = 8192
#
# Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback.
cache-min = 20.0
#
# DVD: Display English subtitles if available.
slang = en
# DVD: Play English audio tracks if available.
alang = en
# get a default OSD font from fontconfig

fontconfig = yes
font = "Sans"
subfont-text-scale = 3
#
lchata at ubuntu:~/.mplayer$
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Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
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