[SOLVED] how to play videos in webside using firefox

biplabbijay · 04-12-2010, 11:34 PM

Hi i am using

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Scientific Linux version 2.6.9-67.EL.cernsmp (root@lxcert-i386) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 16:22:33 CET 2007.

My default web browser is firefox.it is working fine. But when ever i try to play a video in the webside it says

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Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.

install missing plugins

click here to download plugins.

When i clic the install missing plugins it says

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adobe flash player is installed. restart firefox to work the plugins correctly

i have restarted firefox the problem persist. Can anybody help me in this regard ? thanks in advance.

dv502 · 04-12-2010, 11:57 PM

Their is a project called easylife @ http://easylifeproject.org/

It will install, configure and add extra repositories to yum's source list. The site says easylife is for fedora and since scientific is also based on fedora, it can be use as well.

Easylife does not replace the yum package manager. Easylife just adds extra repositories from rpmfusion, livna and others to yum's source list.

The first time you use easylife it will download the plugins/packages you need.

When you want to install software in the future -- just use yum as usual.

biplabbijay · 04-13-2010, 12:40 AM

thanks but i want to do it manually so that it can be applyed to any linux distribution. can anybody help me ?

bathory · 04-13-2010, 12:54 AM

Hi,

You can download the tar.gz version of the flash plugin from Adobe, extract it somewhere on your disk and copy the resulting libflashplayer.so in the firefox plugins directory.

Regards

dv502 · 04-13-2010, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by biplabbijay

thanks but i want to do it manually so that it can be applyed to any linux distribution. can anybody help me ?

As with any linux distro try using the package manager first. If a package is not available, then the last option is to install from the package/vendor's website as bathory mentioned.

To check if the install was successful open firefox and type in the url field

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about:plugins

This will list all plugins installed.

Good Luck

biplabbijay · 04-14-2010, 01:29 AM

Thank you dV502, Bathony very much now i can play media in firefox. But i can not install adobe flashplayer 10. If i install it the same problem appears again. so i have installed adobe flashplayer 9 and its working fine . Thank you verymuch.

Biplab

dv502 · 04-14-2010, 04:39 AM

You're welcome biplabbijay