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    HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    i find that on 3 installs so far on 3 different machines totem-plugin is broken in firefox, so ive decided to write a howto replace it with mplayer-plugin


    1.delete the totem plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
    libtotem_mozilla.a libtotem_mozilla.la libtotem_mozilla.so libtotem_mozilla.xpt

    2. install mplayer plugin
    sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
    sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
    sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

    3. then you might need the codecs for quicktime etc, getit from
    http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050412.tar.bz2
    then extract them to the folder /usr/lib/win32

    ive written a script that will do it for you,
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    Last edited by Hairy_Palms; October 19th, 2005 at 10:58 AM.
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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    Hi,

    I already have some dependency problems to install mplayer...

    mplayer-586: Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.5-4) but 0.10.5-2 will have to be installed
    Depends: libjack0.100.0-0 (>= 0.100.0) but it is not installable
    Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2) mais 4.0.1-4ubuntu9 will have to be installed

    I was hoping to meet success in installing mplayer with breezy but seems I'm already too late for the dependencies

    Any way out ?

    (Dont beware of the inexact messages, I've translated them from french).

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    My biggest complaint with Ubuntu was it's inability to play movies trailers from the quicktime site. That's not so bad since it does everything else really well.

    I just used the Mplayer instruction above and the repository information at http://www.psychocats.net/sources.html . I found this link in the Ubuntu forums. Mplayer now works perfectly embedded in Firefox. I can even hit the back button in Firefox while playing a movie and Firefox doesn't shut down. I don't kow why Ubuntu uses Totem.

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    Quote Originally Posted by livecdlover
    I don't kow why Ubuntu uses Totem.
    I ask myself the same thing. Totem actually sucks =(

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    Quote Originally Posted by Elephantman
    Hi,

    I already have some dependency problems to install mplayer...

    mplayer-586: Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.5-4) but 0.10.5-2 will have to be installed
    Depends: libjack0.100.0-0 (>= 0.100.0) but it is not installable
    Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2) mais 4.0.1-4ubuntu9 will have to be installed

    I was hoping to meet success in installing mplayer with breezy but seems I'm already too late for the dependencies

    Any way out ?

    (Dont beware of the inexact messages, I've translated them from french).
    Elephantman, I just tried the procedure from the first post on my fresh install of breezy and it worked fine. What repositories are you using? Usually those sorts of dependancy issues come from using repositories together that weren't designed to be used together. I'm using the repositories listed in the first post here, minus the cipherfunk and wine repositories.

    Also, once you get it working, you might like to test out the that the mozilla plugin is working properly. If you've got all the appropriate codecs (say from w32codecs) then you might try these sites for that purpose:

    http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html
    http://www.apple.com/trailers/

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    I'll admit it, I just did everything palms said to do only I checked boxes in the Synaptic Package Manager. Worked awesome and I can see the Quicktime trailers.

    Awesome!!

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    glad to help
    i havent tried mplayer-586 i use mplayer-386 under hoary there was no real speed benefit and -386 worked so i didnt change see if mplayer-386 will work for you.
    Last edited by Hairy_Palms; October 19th, 2005 at 11:00 AM.
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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    hmmm it has the same dependancies, have you enabled the universe and multiverse repos?

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    nice little how-to, thanks

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    Re: HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

    I tried to do this but when i tried to get the mplayer it couldn't find it in the repositories i'm bruning breezy badger i have uncommented all the repositories but the backports because that one doesn't work... any ideas?

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