Re: File Association Help-Application/octet Stream
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 18:39:54 -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
[...]
> Strange, Moz Help About Plugins list all the installed plugin and their
> file names
> which I located and copied to my $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ dir. The one for
> VLC multimedia plugin, libvlcplugin.so, is not in the dir nor can it be
> found using locate. Although I installed and reinstalled the
> mozilla-plugin-vlc can't find its *.so file. Something else I should be
> doing?
Let's check some things and compare:
$ dpkg -l mozilla-plugin-vlc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii mozilla-plugin-vlc 0.8.5.debian-2 multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC
$ dpkg -L mozilla-plugin-vlc | grep '\.so$'
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
$ file /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
I never copied anything into my ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory. If I type
"about:plugins" into mozilla's location bar, I get:
VLC multimedia plugin
File name: libvlcplugin.so
version 0.8.5 Janus
with about 20 supported audio and video MIME types listed.
Maybe you have a configuration problem in your ~/.mozilla directory.
The easiest way to check this is to create a new test user, log in as
that user and start mozilla.
> -I have no reference to a codecs file anywhere in $HOME. Looked for one
> with locate but
> couldn't find anything. Should there be one? Did find /usr/lib/win32
> with list of codecs and
> long links.
> -just reinstalled w32codecs after doing a policy check and found a newer
> version candidate.
I think that the files in /usr/lib/win32 should be enough. (I use them
with the Xine media player.)
> Haven't done an upgrade or dist-upgrade for a while( week or two)
> because of critical/grave
> bugs in kde and other wanted software. Should I?
I did a full upgrade yesterday and did not notice any problems except
for a minor annoyance with the KDE wallet manager (it has to be killed
and restarted after you log in to work properly). I recommend using
apt-listbugs, but you have to keep in mind that it often lists bugs
which are fixed already ("<done>") in the new version that you are about
to install.
> -Just completed a reboot and restart of kde. Tried out Yahoo News media
> player again with
> same results. The Yayoo player pops up, all the uris load followed by
> done. The fast forward
> and rewind buttons are active(blue) and the pause button is greyed out.
> The player screen is
> a greyed out blank screen. Clicking the active buttons loads all the
> uris and finishes with done
> but nothing plays.
OK, I had a look there and I can't play the videos either. It seems to
be based on flash, so maybe you need the flashplayer plugin version 8
which is not yet available for Linux as far as I know. If you want to
test your flash plugin, go to www.youtube.com; you should be able to
play the videos on that site.
--
Regards,
Florian
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