mozilla-mplayer in a popup?

[Karl Larsen]

David Vincent wrote:
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> Hi Folks.
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> Anyone else having this issue?  When I try to use the mozilla-mplayer
> plugin to play a video (say off the http://www.cbc.ca/news frontpage)
> the video never plays and mplayer pops up in a separate window - it is
> not embedded like it used to be.
>
> Any video I try to play from a webpage with the mozilla-mplayer plugin
> exhibits this behaviour.
>
> This started happening for me when I upgraded from Feisty, it happens on
> all my machines.  It happens on fresh installs of Ubuntu/Firefox and
> mozilla-mplayer plugin.
>
> I've tried the mozilla vlc plugin (sucks, doesn't play reliably and when
> it does there are no video controls even though the hotkeys are
> recognized and the OSD recognizes that I pressed ffwd or pause for
> example), totem-mozilla (doesn't play the CBC videos at all it seems,
> even on a fresh install although this used to work), and the
> xine-plugin.  Xine-plugin works the best - the videos actually play but
> I don't have any video controls (like pause for example) which I always
> find useful.
>
> - -d
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>   
    When I tried that video it told me I needed to install another 
driver. I just quit. And that video was going to play right on the web 
page.


Karl


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