HowTo: Web embedded media without firefox plugins.

[krusbjorn]

Hi!

I've had a lot of problems getting a movie/sound-plugin for embedded media to work properly in firefox. The mplayer-plugin worked best on my old computer, but now that i bought a new one, i wanted to get a plugin with controls.

And i found this (https://do-not-add.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&numpg=10&id=446) neat firefox extension, installed it, and told it to use my favorite media player (gmplayer). That's it. No need for a noob like me to spend hours trying to get plugins to work.

Just thought i should share it with you guys, if you didnt know of it already :)

[gunnyman]

and this plugin is called?

[ludi]

Hi!

I've had a lot of problems getting a movie/sound-plugin for embedded media to work properly in firefox. The mplayer-plugin worked best on my old computer, but now that i bought a new one, i wanted to get a plugin with controls.

And i found this (https://do-not-add.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&numpg=10&id=446) neat firefox extension, installed it, and told it to use my favorite media player (gmplayer). That's it. No need for a noob like me to spend hours trying to get plugins to work.

Just thought i should share it with you guys, if you didn't know of it already :)
Too late for me :(
I've got mplayer-plugin working in 2 of my 3 machines but the last one didn't work (mplayer compilation issue). So, I've spent all sunday getting thousands of dependencies to compile a simple and nasty plugin! The binary package of debian repository (Mplayer 1.0PRE7) don't work in hoary (dependencies issues)...
Well, if I get some time I'll make a .deb and put it here..
Thanks for the tip.

[Jesus Franco]

Thanks for this man. Im currently using it. It is much better than anyother plugin. With this I can Fullscreen trialers :D

[RastaMahata]

Thanks for this man. Im currently using it. It is much better than anyother plugin. With this I can Fullscreen trialers :D
woah, nice "official way" to see trailers and stuff without a hack :P

[Heliode]

Wow, this is great! Thanks a lot!

[McQuaid]

I've installed this an it works on the usual suspects like quicktime trailers.

I'm a big fan of the tv show the contender and I want to see the extended fights

This plugin won't allow me to see the fights from this site:

http://contender.tv.yahoo.com/01/index.html

Click watch the fight now

Also there is a popup to show what is/is not installed. It says quicktime,real, and wmp are not installed. Firefox blocked the popup and then I clicked the top area of firefox and said allow this pop up but yet firefox still blocks it even after restarting firefox and visiting the page again.

So if anyone can tell me how to get this to work with any plugin it would be great. In my other install of deb/sid I have mozilla-mplayer plugin installed and it doesn't work there either.

Last thing, I don't like installing things multiple times, how do I install this plugin for everyone? I forget where to copy it. Also is this firefox specific? I assume it is being an xpi file but just curious if it would work in epiphany/galeon.

[Rehevkor]

Outstanding! I was never able to get vlc and its mozilla plugin to work, but this worked perfectly on the first try. I'm using totem-xine for playback, and it works great. Thanks!

[Poul]

Wonderful that is. Finally official mozilla linux playback plugin.

[reformedgeek]

Is it possible to get the extension from a different source?
Whenever i go to the link, i get the 'upgrade' screen...
I've read about changing the coding within ff, but am reluctant to do so.

any ideas?
si

[krusbjorn]

Is it possible to get the extension from a different source?
Whenever i go to the link, i get the 'upgrade' screen...
I've read about changing the coding within ff, but am reluctant to do so.

any ideas?
si

here's the extension home page:
http://membres.lycos.fr/sethnakht/

[ganatronic]

This is swell. Exactly what I was looking for.

I was still having some problems watching a quicktime file with vlc as my player, but it might have been a connection issue - since it would play about three seconds and stop (to load probably, although I waited a while). I'll give a try with xine-ui. It worked great with other files.

Thanks!!

edit: works great with xine

[krusbjorn]

Is it possible to get the extension from a different source?
Whenever i go to the link, i get the 'upgrade' screen...
I've read about changing the coding within ff, but am reluctant to do so.

any ideas?
si

By the way, if you had looked around a little, you would have found this ;)

Setting general.useragent.vendorSub to 1.0.4 in about:config seems to let me access addons.mozilla.org

[royg1234]

It's nothing to be scared of.


about:config (in Firefox address bar)
general.useragent.vendorsub (filter this, and change value to 1.04)


It's worth it, this extension is. It's awesome.

[pdk001]

Hi!

I've had a lot of problems getting a movie/sound-plugin for embedded media to work properly in firefox. The mplayer-plugin worked best on my old computer, but now that i bought a new one, i wanted to get a plugin with controls.

And i found this (https://do-not-add.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&numpg=10&id=446) neat firefox extension, installed it, and told it to use my favorite media player (gmplayer). That's it. No need for a noob like me to spend hours trying to get plugins to work.

Just thought i should share it with you guys, if you didnt know of it already :)
that's what i want a link thanks so much

[bahumbug]

this is awesome, i had used the mozilla plugin previously to get totem to work, but it was a little glitchy. This works very nice, you can even make it pop up separately so you can watch it full screen.... Thanks for this! \\:D/

PEACE

[gotmonkey]

I installed the plugin and it works great at apple trailers. xine is set to play quicktime, realplayer, windows media.

I am having a couple of errors though.

I am not able to launch video from www.atomfilms.com. When I try to watch a film at atom films, I click the link to watch the film and it tells me that I have to install a player. Any thoughts?

To try out the realplayer compatibility. I went to real.com. I was able to play *.rm tracks, *.ram music videos, and few of the movie trailers.

Some of the trailers that I was trying to play, I get some errors.

The first:
xine engine error
there is no input plugin available to handle 'rtsp://go.rbn.com/realone/hollywood/demand/
maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist

the second:
there is no demuxer plugin available to handle
'http://start.real.com/context/?zurl=http://pr
Usually this means that the file format was not recognized

Anyone have any thoughts?

[Jonathan2007]

So if I set it up to use Kaffeine, I take it I no longer need the Kaffeine mozilla plugin? And is Kaffeine supposed to popup in its own window? Or can I make it so it shows in the browser window in the space provided (and if I can do it in the browser then can I click something to make it full screen or bigger?). Thanks and sorry for the confusing questions.

[ghostintheshell]

I've installed this an it works on the usual suspects like quicktime trailers.

I'm a big fan of the tv show the contender and I want to see the extended fights

This plugin won't allow me to see the fights from this site:

http://contender.tv.yahoo.com/01/index.html
(...)

The latest mplayer-plugin does it very well :D

take a look here (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=44560&highlight=mplayer+plugin)

[amohanty]

Its surprising that so many people are having problem with this, I used the link installed the extension and havent really had any problems with any of the sites mentioned above. totem-xine is set to play pretty much everything. The only problem I have come across is on the bbc-news site when you click on the video and it fires up totem even though there is no stream present, but I can live with just clicking one more link in the popup to start the stream.

[psoleko]

Why did it take me so long to discover this extension? Absolutely brilliant, I can't put into words how much I love it. Thanks.