mozilla mplayer plugin problems in ubuntu 9.04

[David Curtis]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:57:01 +0200
jeff bootsma <jeff.bootsma at telenet.be> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I think there is a problem with the mozilla-mplayer plugin for ubuntu
> 9.04, every time when I try to watch a trailer at apple-trailers.com.
> Mozilla just disappears. I don´t know why, I just know that it isn´t
> working normal as it did in 8.10. I also have this problem with the ps3
> version of ubuntu 9.04.

Yes I get this too. Read on other sites the solution was to install gecko-mediaplayer, and sure enough it worked for me. It'll pull-in a couple of other things but was only a couple of extra MB. From what else I've read this is now the prefered interface for mplayer.


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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>