Can't view Apple.com commercials in Firefox

vwtech · 05-25-2008, 03:30 PM

Help-I love looking at the apple.com movie on their website but I cant but it wont play.

blackhole54 · 05-26-2008, 03:09 AM

IIRC, you would need a Quicktime plugin for that. However that does not exist on Linux. You can look here for a possible work-around.

webaccounts · 05-27-2008, 09:49 AM

mplayer and mplayer plugin should be able to do it.

I use fedora, so yum install mplayer gets it installed.

mplayer allows me to play all media files so far. Great program.

rickh · 05-27-2008, 10:20 AM

Quicktime, or whatever codec it needs, is evidently pretty easy to come by. I didn't go out of the way to find any esoteric codecs and I can watch those commercials fine.

vwtech · 05-27-2008, 09:05 PM

I found the answer:

Install Quicktime for Firefox:

sudo yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mencoder
sudo /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config -i -f

Now I can watch quicktime stuff in Firefox.Yeah.