Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote:
> >
> >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are
> >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have
> >> libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play
> >> such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play
> >> videos. In the past, seamonkey was unable to play these videos when the
> >> flash player library was removed.
> >>
> >> What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured what
> >> they use?
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > "about:plugins" will tell what other flash plugins are installed and
> > available for your browser.
>
> Thx, I looked at that and there weren't any. Meanwhile, I tried gnash
> and found that it doesn't work at all. Lightspark depends on
> pulseaudio, and I don't want to install that. Are there any
> alternatives --- preferably using mplayer?
>
> It's no more than a video which mplayer can play once you can download
> it, so what's the problem?
>
There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the
Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot.
-Rob
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