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thomas_nj
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: Problems opening trailers on hp with firefox |
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Hello
Does anyone know how I can play the trailers on this site in firefox? http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=318
I have installed mplayerplug-in but when I try to watch a trailer with it it just says connecting to server without getting anywhere.
On the hp they say you need activeX in order to watch the trailers but I can only find it for Windows.
So does anyone know how I can make this site work with firefox (I woul prefer not being forced to install iexplorer in wine just to open one page) |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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In terms of essoteric format support mplayer is slightly better than xine, so I would go with a solution based on mplayer. I dont know anything about the mplayer plugin, because I found it so buggy in the past and just decided to go with another solution. I use kmplayer, wich embed nicely in konqueror, but I supose that being a nsplugin it should work the same in firefox, so you could give it a try. Those are my use flags for mplayer and kmplayer, in case you still cant get it to play the trailers.
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[ebuild R ] media-video/kmplayer-0.9.0c -arts -debug -gstreamer +kdeenablefinal +mplayer +xine -xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 -3dfx +3dnow -3dnowext +X +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl +cdparanoia +cpudetection +custom-cflags -debug -dga +directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode -esd +fbcon -ggi +gif -gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live +lzo +mad +matroska -matrox +mmx -mmxext -mythtv -nas +nls +nvidia +opengl -oss +png -real +rtc -samba -sdl +sse -sse2 -svga -tga +theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0 kB
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In the past I used also gxine in conjuction with opera, but the xine engine had problems with some files. |
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thomas_nj
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Does the site work for you, if you try to watch a triler? |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| thomas_nj wrote: | | Does the site work for you, if you try to watch a triler? |
Yes, I can see the trailers without any problem (a warning page appears but there are three links at the bottom where I can choose to skip the warning and see the trailer in three different qualities). I have used konqueror with kmplayer.
The issue is if kmplayer works ok with firefox or not. I use konqueror so cant be sure but i am emerging opera right now. If it works ok with opera then there is no reason to think that I won't with firefox. I will report as soon as opera is installed and I can check again (will take some time, though, I have to emerge libstdc++ also  I will let you know. |
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i92guboj
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Opera does not use kmplayer, at least not in an easy way. Im trying to use netscape-plugger to do it, but no success for now. I was wrong, kmplayer uses other mechanism to integrate with konqueror, it seems that it is not a nsplugin.
Still you have another alternative if mplayerplug-in does not work. Try to emerge gxine with the "nsplugin" use flag on, that should work If I have any sucess with the other way I will let you know. |
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thomas_nj
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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If I try gxine with the nsplugin set i get this error:
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No input plugin found.
Maybe the file does not exist, has wrong permissions or
URL syntax error. |
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