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12-31-2007, 04:04 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Italy
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10
Posts: 106
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windows mediaPlayer browser plugin
I was just browsing the web site: http://www.rai.tv/mpplaymedia/0,,Eve...E47413,00.html
to see the italian president last year day speech, unfortunately there was a plugin needed that my firefox was unable to find and regognise.
could someone tell me how can i see windows mediaplayer movies by websites requesting the microsoft plugin?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
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12-31-2007, 04:17 PM
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Florida
Distribution: Slackware64 14.1
Posts: 58
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What Distro are you using?
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12-31-2007, 05:31 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Italy
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10
Posts: 106
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sorry, I forgot to specify that I'm proudly experiencing ubuntu 7.10 with gnome 2.20.1, java runtime env., Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Acrobat plugin installed,
the firefox version is the 2.0.0.11
...and I'm still unable to view these kind of movie file over the web!
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12-31-2007, 09:55 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10
Posts: 4
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My first positive LINUX experience was with UBUNTU.
I also have problems with video not loading in UBUNTU. You could try Linux Mint (this distribution was originally based on UBUNTU), it incorporates more plugins in the initial installation. Your video loaded O.K. in MINT.
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12-31-2007, 10:03 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Mageia/Kali/Ubuntu/openSUSE/Manjaro/Pop!_OS
Posts: 39
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Or you could try installing Mplayer and then the Mplayer plugin for Firefox (Sorry, don't know where you can find them for your distro; it shouldn't be too hard though) . I don't know if that'll work for you, I have openSUSE and it worked for me.
Cheers!
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12-31-2007, 10:11 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: San Jose
Distribution: Fedora 3,4- Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.10, Gentoo and Arch
Posts: 408
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Ubuntu may not have all plugins installed by default, but installing them from synaptic is pretty easy. Try to install totem plugin and see if it works.
Unfortunately many websites force people to use windows media player for watching on line videos. For example, there is a video streaming website that requires users to have Windows media player, because they want people to enter a specific login name and password in order to watch it. Totem cannot provide that system unfortunately.
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01-01-2008, 04:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 3
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install mplayer and mplayer firefox plugin
this page http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-mp...sy-gibbon.html
shows how to find and install the mplayer stuff you need, libdvdcss for watching encrypted dvd's, win32codecs for windows movies and the mplayer plugin for firefox.
good luck
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01-01-2008, 10:28 AM
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Registered User
Registered: Dec 2006
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You probably only need to install the Win32 codecs- after installing the codecs on my Ubuntu box, I can watch anything with Totem, the default video player.
Cheers
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01-01-2008, 11:24 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 3
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codecs and totem
you will need libdvdcss2 if you ever want to watch commercial DVDs. Most are encrypted and this decodes them. In some countries (guess which one) it is apparently illegal to use this software - which means watching DVD movies you have bought on anything other than a DVD player is illegal!
This is why this software is never included in a distro, but always must be downloaded.
Si
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01-02-2008, 03:37 AM
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Registered User
Registered: Dec 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sirobert
you will need libdvdcss2 if you ever want to watch commercial DVDs. Most are encrypted and this decodes them. In some countries (guess which one) it is apparently illegal to use this software - which means watching DVD movies you have bought on anything other than a DVD player is illegal!
This is why this software is never included in a distro, but always must be downloaded.
Si
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Yes, and libdvdcss2.
I'm not so sure it's illegal to use, though- it's just illegal to bundle it with an OS without paying royalties, same as win32codecs.
Cheers
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01-03-2008, 08:30 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2006
Distribution: Debian Stable
Posts: 17
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Try MediaPlayerConnectivity
Hi.
This extension greatly improves multimedia playing in Firefox, by redirecting the links to an external player, such as MPlayer, Xine or your favorite media player
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
If you miss any multimedia codecs, try using automatix to install it
http://www.getautomatix.com/
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01-03-2008, 08:56 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Malaysia
Distribution: FC, Ubuntu
Posts: 50
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you can view using mozilla. just install helix player, it will also install mplayer for u.
sudo apt-get install mozilla-helix-player
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01-03-2008, 09:19 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Italy
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10
Posts: 106
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thank you all
thank you guys, I just want to thank you all for precious indications and suggestions, I really appreciated your support.
Now I understand what someone mind when told me that the open source community is very efficiently and cool!
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