Media Issues in Firefox

[Wade Smart]

11112005 1608 GMT-5

I have MPlayer installed. I followed the UbuntuGuide instructions to get 
the plugin working in Firefox. And I had seen this link as well. But I 
still dont have MPlayer as the default player of video; Totem still has 
that spot.

Wade
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'Forum Post wrote:
> 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:
> --------------------
>     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 
> --------------------
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
>