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thorgamma 01-09-2011 03:00 PM
Flash and quicktime movies don't work; mgp and wmv movies work fine - what to do?
 
As far as I can tell, I have all the applicable applications and plugins (for this, Debian 5.0.6 installation).

I type in
Code:
about:plugins
in either iceweasel or epiphany browser and get a list that includes:
Code:
Installed plugins
Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org.
Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.
Shockwave Flash

    File name: libswfdecmozilla.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash        Adobe Flash movie        swf        Yes
application/futuresplash        FutureSplash movie        spl        Yes
Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.2

    File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.2 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
application/x-ogg        -        ogg        Yes
application/ogg        Ogg multimedia file        ogg        Yes
audio/ogg        Ogg Audio        oga        Yes
audio/x-ogg        Ogg Audio        ogg        Yes
video/ogg        Ogg Video        ogv        Yes
video/x-ogg        Ogg Video        ogg        Yes
application/annodex        -        anx        Yes
audio/annodex        -        axa        Yes
video/annodex        -        axv        Yes
video/mpeg        MPEG video        mpg, mpeg, mpe        Yes
audio/wav        WAV audio        wav        Yes
audio/x-wav        WAV audio        wav        Yes
audio/mpeg        MP3 audio        mp3        Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3        NullSoft video        nsv        Yes
video/flv        Flash video        flv        Yes
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-complex-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.2 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin        RealAudio document        rpm        Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.2 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
application/x-mplayer2        AVI video        avi, wma, wmv        Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin        ASF video        asf, wmv        Yes
video/x-msvideo        AVI video        asf, wmv        Yes
video/x-ms-asf        ASF video        asf        Yes
video/x-ms-wmv        Windows Media video        wmv        Yes
video/x-wmv        Windows Media video        wmv        Yes
video/x-ms-wvx        Microsoft ASX playlist        wmv        Yes
video/x-ms-wm        ASF video        wmv        Yes
application/x-ms-wms        Windows Media video        wms        Yes
application/asx        Microsoft ASX playlist        asx        Yes
audio/x-ms-wma        Windows Media audio        wma        Yes
DivX® Web Player

    File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
video/divx        AVI video        divx        Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0

    File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.2 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
video/quicktime        QuickTime video        mov        Yes
video/mp4        MPEG-4 video        mp4        Yes
image/x-macpaint        MacPaint Bitmap image        pntg        Yes
image/x-quicktime        QuickTime image        pict, pict1, pict2        Yes
video/x-m4v        MPEG-4 video        m4v        Yes
iTunes Application Detector

    File name: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
    This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
application/itunes-plugin                        Yes
Epiphany Desktop File Plugin

    File name: libdesktopfileplugin.so
    This plugin handles “.desktop” and “.url” files containing web links.

MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled
application/x-desktop        desktop link file        desktop        Yes
text/x-uri        URL file        url        Yes
application/x-mswinurl        URL file                Yes
There doesn't seem to be anything else to install - I've checked the KDE Add/Remove Applications and the Synaptic Package Manager.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Thorgamma

xandercage17 01-10-2011 04:05 AM
Delete My account

thorgamma 01-10-2011 10:17 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by xandercage17 (Post 4219111)
Install W32 Codecs,Libdvdcss2 for Debian should help.
http://www.debianadmin.com/install-m...-50-lenny.html
xandercage17, Thank you very much for the suggestion. I followed the instructions at the web site, but at the end, I got this message:
Code:
apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate
I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling mplayer, but to no avail. Any other suggestions?

xandercage17 01-11-2011 04:30 AM
Delete My account

no2498 01-11-2011 08:46 AM
and update your flash player 9 is not new

thorgamma 01-11-2011 04:28 PM
Thanks everybody for your help. I floundered around on this quite a bit, using your advice and others. I managed to get the file for adobe flashplayer 10 in the correct directory, but it doesn't show up as working. (I downloaded the .tar.gz file from the Adobe web site, which popped up when I couldn't play a movie. Extracted the file and moved it to the /usr/lib/iceweasel/ and copied over to /usr/lib/epiphany. But to no apparent avail - the same version 9 shows up when I check
Code:
about:plugins
on either browser.) Can anyone please clue me in how to install this properly if what I did was not correct?

One thing I found that worked (apparently for the old version) was to go to the preferences in iceweasel, and change the preferences for plugins to make Shockwave Flash the default.

no2498 01-12-2011 11:25 AM
look in your package manager uninstall flash NOT a conpleat removal
what the system put in
reinstall flash from adobe
now reinstall the extras this should give you 10


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