MPlayer Teal Green Double Cross Error Message

[Lorin Pino]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Hve posted on this related topic but no solution. Have
> since installed Automatix and let it install
> everything related to playing embedded videos but
> still no solution. Related posts were:
>  (Not)Playing Embedded Videos With Mozilla Browser
>  Why Embedded Videos Wont Play On Linux? 
> Am not experiencing user friendliness on this matter!
> The actual message says "This page contains
> information of a type(application/x-mplayer2)that can
> only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in."(exact
> quote).
> Of course, the mime type is listed in KDE's file
> association table and I have added nsplugin viewer to
> the top of the embedded list for all video related
> entries.
> What I would like to do is play embedded videos with
> Mozilla browser(not firefox which plays; its too hard
> on my old eyes) and using mplayerplug-in which has
> worked well in the past on Debian distros.
> If I can't get specific help on the setup(I think its
> a setup issue) then perhaps someone could list a
> thouough, detailed wiki that could guide me through
> all the setup issues. Would appreciate specific help
> and yes, I have googled much on this.
> This is the only remaining important issue I have
> using Kubuntu desktop and I'm impressed with the
> otherwise user friendliness with the distro. Thanks
> for any response.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>   
You say that firefox hurts your eyes.  Have you tried View>Text 
Size>Increase, or Edit>Preferences>Content Tab>Fonts&Colors 
Advanced>Minimum Font Size?  If that doesn't help, you may want to 
remove firefox.  I wanted to try the mozilla suite (while already having 
firefox), and had trouble with both.  On my machine, they didn't play 
nice together.

I have not run mozilla much, but have you looked at these:
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/mozilla/plugins/

I am using ubuntu, so my search in synaptic may not tell you much.   Do 
you have these installed:
mozilla-mplayer
gstreamer

I am going to give you a list of packages that I have installed by using 
the search function in synaptic (codec was the search term).
Your version of g-streamer may be newer than mine, so the version 
numbers would be different.
gstreamer0.8-dirac
gstreamer0.8-dv
"                  "   -ffmpeg
"                  "   -flac
"                  "   -xvid

Other codecs installed:
libdirac0
libdv4
libflac7
liboggflac3
libxine1c2
libvidcore4
w32codecs

If I search for mplayer my results are:
gstreamer0.8-pitfdll
mozilla-mplayer
mplayer-386
mplayer-fonts
w32codecs

A search for gstreamer turns up:
gstreamer0.8-a52dec
"                  "  -aa
"                  "  -alsa
"                  "  -artsd
"                  "  -audiofile
"                  "  -caca
"                  "  -cdio
"                  "  -cdparanoia
"                  "  -dirac
"                  "  -dv
"                  "  -dvd
"                  "  -esd
"                  "  -faac
"                  "  -faad
"                  "  -fame
"                  "  -festival
"                  "  -ffmped
"                  "  -flac
"                  "  -gnomevfs
"                  "  -gsm
"                  "  -gtk
"                  "  -hermes
"                  "  -jack
"                  "  -jpeg
"                  "  -lame
"                  "  -mad
"                  "  -mikmod
"                  "  -misc
"                  "  -mms
"                  "  -mpeg2dec
"                  "  -musepack
"                  "  -musicbrainz
"                  "  -oss
"                  "  -pitfdll
"                  "  -plugin-apps
"                  "  -plugins
"                  "  -plugins-multiverse
"                  "  -sdl
"                  "  -sid
"                  "  -speex
"                  "  -swfdec
"                  "  -theora
"                  "  -tools
"                  "  -visuals
"                  "  -vorbis
"                  "  -wavpack
"                  "  -x
"                  "  -xvid
libglib2.0-cil
libgstreamer0.8-0
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0
libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0
swf-player

I expect that not all of these are necessary to do what you want, but 
this will give you a place to start.  If you use synaptic, you can look 
up any of these packages to see what they do (assuming you have all your 
sources in order). 

I am running breezy, so if you are running dapper most of these version 
numbers will probably not be the same as yours. 

If you get no help from this list, have you tried a mplayer list:  
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html#mailing_lists
There are a couple of article links on this page:  
http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/

Hope you get it running
~Lorin