On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:14:19AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 11:02 AM, Fred Smith issued this missive:
> >Hi all!
> >
> >I'm really stumped here. I've got F17 on one netbook and with it am able
> >to view apple movie trailers using Firefox.
> >
> >On the OTHER netbook, now with F19, I have, AFAIK, all the same browser
> >plugins and underlying packages installed, but the videos won't play.
> >when clicking any of the options to start playing, a black window for
> >the video opens, and the player's controls are drawn at the bottom, and
> >that's as far as it goes. clicking the play button (it starts paused,
> >apparently) makes no difference.
> >
> >I can provide a list of browser plugins (it's not on the computer
> >I'm using ATM) and anything else you want to see, just let me know.
>
> Check your codecs ("yum list gstreamer-plugins*" and "yum list
> gstreamer1-plugins*"). Odds are that you are missing one of the codecs
> that the plugin needs to render it.
>
> Most Apple stuff is h.264 with AAC audio.
Good hint, Rick. too bad I've already got all the gstreamer stuff installed:
[root@aspirebox ~]# yum list installed | grep -y gstreamer
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin.i686 0.8.9-6.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer.i686 0.10.36-3.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.i686 0.10.23-17.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer-plugins-base.i686 0.10.36-4.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer-plugins-espeak.i686 0.4.0-2.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer-plugins-good.i686 0.10.31-9.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer-tools.i686 0.10.36-3.fc19 @anaconda
gstreamer1.i686 1.0.8-1.fc19 @updates
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.i686 1.0.8-1.fc19 @updates
gstreamer1-plugins-base.i686 1.0.8-1.fc19 @updates
gstreamer1-plugins-good.i686 1.0.8-1.fc19 @updates
[root@aspirebox ~]# yum list availiable | grep -y gstreamer
Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@aspirebox ~]#
I also installed libquicktime and it brought in a dozen or more of
various dependencies. didn't help any.
sometimes I think Apple is going out of their way to make sure Linux
users can't access that site,... they keep changing it so that the then-
current work-arounds no longer work around. this is far from the first
time. Up until recently I could view them just fine on my Centos
desktop, though it took some messing with Firefox plugins (to fake the
user agent) for it to work. but even after they broke that, it still
worked on my F17 netbook (without, in fact, the user agent fakery--go
figure!). in fact it still does, but I've got a new(er) one with F19
that I'd sure like to be able to use, too.
There are only a couple of differences in firefox plugins between the
two systems. though I run Mate desktop on both, the F17 system also has
Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE desktops installed, while the F19 is Mate only.
Makes me wonder if I need some Gnome package or other to make it work.
there is one gnome plugin for firefox that is on f17 but not the f19
system (can't recall its name right now), so one just wonders. so far
I've avoided installing it 'cause I assumed it would want a bazillion
gigabytes of gnome packages to make it work.
And both systems have Firefox-22.
Fred
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