Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and vimeo won't
play. I got a few youtube videos to play, but they seemed to be using
HTML5. I installed the gnash plugin and some of the youtube videos
started working, but vimeo isn't working.
I can't figure out how to get the vlc plugin to play anything...
By the way, I also notice that there is totem-mozilla in the Squeeze
repos, and I have it installed. But I can't seem to use it.
-Rob
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