Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>> > 
>> 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.

Hm, I installed browser-plugin-vlc, and it shows up on the about:plugins
page.  There's also gnash, registered for
"application/x-shockwave-flash".  The vlc plugin is registered for many
types.  Now if we could somehow register the vlc plugin for
"application/x-shockwave-flash" instead, it might work.

When I look at "Edit->Preferences->Helper Applications" in seamonkey, it
tells me that the vlc plugin is supposed to be used to play "Flash
video".  This can be changed to xine (Why not vlc and mplayer?  I have
those installed, too, and I don't remember installing a xine plugin for
seamonkey (which I might have years ago).) and to "Always ask" (which it
never does). There's also "Shockwave Flash file" for which it says "Use
Shockwave Flash", and I can change that to use gnash or be asked.
What's the difference between "Flash video" and "Shockwave Flash File"?

The browser could just let me download the files.  Why doesn't it do
that, that would be so much easier.  Why does this have to be so
complicated?


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