nix4me
December 3rd, 2005, 09:59 PM
Well, I have bitten my toungue long enough.
Ubuntu 5.10 is a great distro EXCEPT for multimedia integration. It is a complete failure.
I have tried everything and there is no 100% solution. Multimedia in Firefox will just not work bug free.
1. mplayer/mplayerplug-in works about 90%: It will play mpeg well but when clicking a wmv after a mpg, firefox crashes every time.
2. Totem plugin for firefox is 100% broken. Crashes firefox everytime.
3. Mediaplayerconnectivity extension for firefox is broken. Slows firefox to a crawl and doesn't play half the formats its supposed to.
4. Mozplugger doesn't work. Tried everything to get totem incorported but it simply won't.
So, I have tried working with the developer of mplayerplug-in and I have filed bug reports long ago with all of the applications to no avail.
What happened? Hoary had no problems with totem-xine / mozplugger. Never had a problem. And now nothing seems to work 100%.
And yes I have w32codecs installed. I am not a newbie. I have edited config files and read every document and post related to this on this forum and it seems I am certainly not the only one. There are hundreds of posts about this very same thing.
I would love to help fix this but i dont have the skills. Is there a way we can encourage a few developers to focus on this problem? I would gradly donate some $$$ to help the cause. I know multimedia is a touchy subject with Ubuntu beacuse of the licensing and all but there has to be a solution for Ubuntu to be considered a viable Desktop solution. Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu, and I am not bashing it. I am merely trying to get to the bottom of embedded streaming media.
nix4me
Ubuntu 5.10 is a great distro EXCEPT for multimedia integration. It is a complete failure.
I have tried everything and there is no 100% solution. Multimedia in Firefox will just not work bug free.
1. mplayer/mplayerplug-in works about 90%: It will play mpeg well but when clicking a wmv after a mpg, firefox crashes every time.
2. Totem plugin for firefox is 100% broken. Crashes firefox everytime.
3. Mediaplayerconnectivity extension for firefox is broken. Slows firefox to a crawl and doesn't play half the formats its supposed to.
4. Mozplugger doesn't work. Tried everything to get totem incorported but it simply won't.
So, I have tried working with the developer of mplayerplug-in and I have filed bug reports long ago with all of the applications to no avail.
What happened? Hoary had no problems with totem-xine / mozplugger. Never had a problem. And now nothing seems to work 100%.
And yes I have w32codecs installed. I am not a newbie. I have edited config files and read every document and post related to this on this forum and it seems I am certainly not the only one. There are hundreds of posts about this very same thing.
I would love to help fix this but i dont have the skills. Is there a way we can encourage a few developers to focus on this problem? I would gradly donate some $$$ to help the cause. I know multimedia is a touchy subject with Ubuntu beacuse of the licensing and all but there has to be a solution for Ubuntu to be considered a viable Desktop solution. Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu, and I am not bashing it. I am merely trying to get to the bottom of embedded streaming media.
nix4me