On 03/09/2010 12:00 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/08/2010 06:59 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, Temlakos<temlakos@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 03/08/2010 01:02 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
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Has this anything to do with why videos
won't play
on
foxnews.com when I
browse them in Firefox?
YouTube and other shared-service videos
play fine,
and so
do the videos
that I embed. But foxnews.com won't play
at all.
Do I need a plugin to get it to work? Or
do those
videos
not play nice
with flashplayer?
Both (Foxnews& YouTube)
work fine here in
Firefox 3.5.8 and Flash 10.0 R45 all 64-bit.
No
special configurations. Basically, a stock
install of
F12.
What version flash player do you have?
And what
OS?
B
Flash-plugin version 10.0.45.2
32-bit architecture (i686)
Fedora 12, with KDE
Firefox Version 3.5
In this setup, YouTube works. Foxnews does not.
I'm using GNOME. For years, I had recurring
problems playing Flash (and other multimedia files) through
any browser, but Firefox was the most problematical.
Some sites worked fine; others wouldn't work at all; some
would work, but with frequent crashes or freezes or
stuttering requiring reloading/restarting the browser.
To make a long story short, using yum, I completely
uninstalled Totem and all its related files, installed
mplayer-plugin (and its dependencies), and that cured 98% of
the multimedia problems. Sites that wouldn't work, now
did. Flash was installed manually per Adobe's directions.
Maybe, there are some KDE plugins, etc. that Foxnews
doesn't like or can't recognize and stops. What
plugins do you have installed?
B
I have a bunch of Totem and Totem-compatible plugins,
including one for
Windows Media.
So you used mplayer-plugin as a replacement. Maybe I can do
that--so
long as I don't have to get rid of VLC.
I initially tried VLC as a plugin (and stand-alone player) with and without Totem, but decided to uninstall it before installing mplayer. Since mplayer and its browser plugin worked to my satisfaction, I never bothered reinstalling VLC. My video and multimedia requirements are very basic anyway. So, I didn't need anything more sophisticated than mplayer.
I doubt if VLC will cause problems, if installed along with mplayer, as long as everything is configured properly. Try. You can always uninstall one or the other, if there are conflicts.
B
You might be interested to know: mplayerplug-in is now supposed to be
gecko-mediaplayer.
I installed that, from the repositories, after removing all totem
plug-ins and applets.
I still cannot play any videos on Foxnews.com--though I can
play them on the NBC channels mentioned, and on any other channel.
Temlakos
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