Embedded Videos Still Wont Play In Mozilla Browser

[Leonard Chatagnier]

> Roger Haxton wrote:
On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:41, Leonard
Chatagnier wrote:
>> Still trying to get embedded videos to play in
Mozilla
>> browser. A reference to the mplayer list was
refered
>> to mplayerplug-ins at sourceforge.net. The mime
type
>> "application/x-mplayer2" appears in KDE's file
>> association list and in "about plugins" Windows
Media
>> Player Plugin entry in Mozilla browser but it
doesn't
>> show in mplayerplug-in 3.17 nor in
>> mplayerplug-in.types. I suspect the entry should be
in
>> the two places it isn't. From all my googling it
>> appears that this is a Debian/Ubuntu distro related
>> issue and would like to know how to get the mime
type
>> entered in the places where its not and in general
how
>> to get embedded videos to play in Mozilla browser.
As
>> I mentioned in an earlier post this month this is a
>> long standing issue and all my googling points back
to
>> the distro. Please help me on this.
>>
>> Leonard Chatagnier
>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> I just tested with the gxine plugin with the mozilla
browser and every 
> video I 
> attempted to play played.  Now, it doesn't actually
play IN the 
> browser, it 
actually opens the gxine application, but it does work
>in the mozilla 
browser 
> as well as firefox.  

> HTH,
> -- 
> ~R~
Well, thanks for the tip Roger. I have gzine installed
and did a "show". Saw that gzineplugin was recommended
and installed it and also noted that I had all the
depends. I rmed pluginreg.dat from $HOME/.mozilla and
restarted mozilla browser. Clicked on an AP news video
on my dsl.sbc.yahoo home page. The yahoo news video
player popped up with a black background in the player
window, then nothing. The player window doesn't
respond to any right/left click of the mouse. I also
tried starting gxine player and downloading the video
to see if that would play it but only succeded in
crashing the player trying to figure out how to get it
to read the uri. Something must be grossly screwed up
in my Kubuntu setup but I haven't a clue. The
gxineplugin is listed in Moz, Help>about plugins and
it does have the "application/x-mplayer2" entry in it
but doesn't have a file type wmv listed which i think
is required to play the videos. The file
types(Suffixes) listed for mplayer2 are asf, asx, asp.
Does your gxineplugin show any wmv, wmx or wmp
suffixes for mplayer2? BTW, could you offer a kubuntu
mirror that would allow me to download
"mplayerplug-ins" specifically not mozilla-mplayer. I
asked about this in a previous post/reply but so far
no response. Kevin DeKorte, of
mplayerplug-in-development users list, suggested that
I remove all the plugins and install mplayerplug-in
instead. 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net