[64studio-devel] Iceweasel embedded video plugins

[Susan Dridi]

Quentin Harley wrote:
> tim hall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having terrible trouble getting videos to play using any of the 
>> Iceweasel plugins. I've installed mozplugger and all the evil codecs 
>> under the sun. I'm trying to play wmv, rm, quicktime or flv formats mostly.
>>
>> I can download and play in a standalone player usually, but in this 
>> instance I'd like to be able to use the embedded players.
>>
>> Trying to configure the Download actions (Preferences->Content->Manage) 
>> doesn't give any choice of plug-in so that seems to depend on what you 
>> have installed. Does anyone know which keys in about:config deal with 
>> choice of plugins?
>>
>> I'm stumped. Does anyone have any clues or useful pointers?
>>   
> 
> Sorry to say that I am in the exact same predicament.  I cannot even get 
> the java plugin to work.  At least I have flash up and running!
> 
> Cheers,
> Quentin

Flash is working for me, using the flashplugin-nonfree and 
nspluginwrapper packages. So I can play flv files, though I've noticed 
that I have to close Iceweasel from  time to time or else I just get a 
blank area where the flash is supposed to be. I usually have a lot of 
tabs open, which is no doubt the problem, that's pretty resource intensive.

Of course, I tend to download things, using the Firefox Download Helper
plugin, since I have firewire, and need Jack to hear audio. Still 
haven't bought any cheap speakers to plug into my onboard sound for this 
stuff. I've been using MPlayer from the debian multimedia site, since 
Totem won't play a lot of things, and I'm not sure what other evil 
codecs to install to make that happen. I don't like MPlayer that much 
though, you can't open a text file playlist from the GUI, just from the 
command line. And you can't see your playlist, like in other players.

When I had VLC installed, I *think* that things worked a little better 
and that's been my favorite media player so far. But there is no Debian 
package with Jack enabled and I need that for my firewire card. I tried 
compiling it myself, that was a disaster!

Tim, do you have any urls for the other types of files, so I can try them?

Take care,

-Susan