Quicktime stuff doesn't play

[Ric Moore]

On 09/25/2012 08:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 08:44:34 Ric Moore did opine:
>
>> On 09/24/2012 03:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> System is 32 bit ubuntu 10-04.4 LTS on 64 bit hardware.
>>>
>>> All I get is a black window with no download activity.  Ubuntu branded
>>> firefox 3.5something, supposedly up to date.
>>
>> Quicktime or flash?? Mine just went wonkers but re-installing the Adobe
>> Flash installed did the job. Ric
>
> Quicktime m4v, Ric.  'm4v' wasn't and still is not in the about:plugins
> report even after installing another newer vlc and xine too.

If you have a copy of a m4v file and vlc will play it, then you would 
define that in your about:plugins to be used when that file extension is 
encountered. :) Ric


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