y On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 21:58 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 03 October 2008 19:59, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:53 +0930, Tim wrote: > > > Aaron Konstam: > > > >> When I try to play a mpeg file(.mpg) in Firefox instead of getting > > > > > > video > > > > > > >> I get a window telling me I am trying to use proprietary formats > > > > > > for > > > > > > >> which I need codecs to run under Fedora. The available codecs cost > > > >> money. > > > > > > Peter Langfelder: > > > > I'm not sure I can help you directly, but when I updated Firefox the > > > > other day, the update changed the status of some of the plugins (it > > > > activated a few I did not want). One of the plugins that became > > > > > > active > > > > > > > was the media plugin for playing movies, and it does complain about > > > > missing codecs. > > > > > > Perhaps the Totem plugin? Totem (the thing listed, *stupidly*, as > > > just > > > "Movie Player" in the Gnome Menus) will give a similar warning when > > > you > > > try to play encumbered files. I've got more than one plugin > > > installed, > > > and it's been working fine, but I haven't recently tried doing the > > > sort > > > of thing the original poster had fail on them. > > > > Well two things. Playing mpeg video in Firefox worked up to last week. > > Now it doesn't. So it must be an update that fouled things up. > > Second , I have a perfect record. Fedora totem has never worked for me > > ever. Previously to get totem to work I had to install totem-xine from > > livna. And that what works on my F8 machine. Totem currently does not > > work on my F9 machine. Changing to vlc made things work. Further, > > totem-xine no longer exists at livna. > > > > It is hard to believe that no one else has noticed this. Why don't you > > try it and see whether it works now for you. I have never before seen > > this propriety format message. > > > Hi Aaron. I've had F9 installed for a while, but not being too impressed with > KDE4, havn't done much with it, apart from getting updates. > > Today, after doing the updates, and seeing someone with a Firefox problem on > another list, I fired up Firefox on F9. Now I havn't installed any plugins > for Firefox, so those that are there, are those that were installed in > Firefox when I installed F9. > > Now I go to http://www.bloomberg.com . The site opens ok, so so far so good, > I click on radio on the page, and get a window with a load of legal stuff, as > to why I can't listen to the radio. A button on this page now opens another > window saying that I can buy codecs so that I can listen to the radio (28€). > Now I try another site http://cpr.org/ , which also streams with the .asx > format. Same thing again. Pay for the codecs, and you can hear the sounds. > > Now there were a whole bunch of problems when the Fedora servers were > compromised, and I'd disabled the livna repo. Now that things have settled > down, I re-enable the Livna repo. I'm using Apt, not Yum, but installing the > following package, and it's deps should work on both. > > apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer > or > yum install gecko-mediaplayer > > having installed the gecko-mediaplayer package, and it's deps, I now get audio > streams from http://cpr.org/ , and no longer a request to pay for codecs. The > bloomberg site still won't play, but that's an ongoing problem. > > For what it's worth Totem appears to be the problem. It tries to grab first > place when you access a site with Firefox, then says it doesn't know how to > handle the media, or in my experience on F9, has the audacity to ask for > money so that I can hear the sounds. > > Nigel. > > > Well installling the rpms that Rahul suggested mpeg vidio works with totem. http://cpr.org workws for me also. But just to cover all bases I installed gecko-mediaplayer. Thanks for the info. -- ======================================================================= We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure that it wasn't a fish. -- Marshall McLuhan ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
