Media Issues in Firefox

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Wade Smart Wrote: 
> 11112005 1226 GMT-5
> 
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate
> 

This shows up because the W32 codecs are not in the main repositories
for copyright/patent reasons There are a number of places you can get
them. You can add the repositories of the PLF (Penguin Liberation
Front) to your repositories list. http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
Or you can download the individual package using wget and then dpkg to
install it

Code:
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    wget ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20050412-0.0_i386.deb
  dpkg -i w32codecs_20050412-0.0_i386.deb 
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This is a side note, but I would also suggest checking out christooss's
HOWTO on installing the mplayer plugin v3.11.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75817 I find the mplayer
plugin does much better job of dealing with media in firefox. I could
never get totem working properly and mplayer 3.11 worked right away.

~Andrew S.


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