On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:17:21AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:13:28PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 07/17/2013 01:02 PM, Fred Smith issued this missive:
> > >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.
> >
> > I don't see gstreamer-plugins-ugly in there (it contains libgstx264.so,
> > part of the h.264 stuff). I don't have an F19 box handy (just F17 and
> > F18 at this point), so perhaps they don't have it anymore, but that may
> > have an effect.
Several days later, I noticed that a yum list available DID show some
more gstreamer plugins, including the "ugly" one(s). Ran a yum install gstreamer\*ugly\* and voila! now those quicktimes are displaying properly!
thanks for the hint!
Fred
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