Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[ubuntu-freak]

w64codecs are installed. I tried disabling any affects as well as different video outputs (selected using the KMplayer). Perhaps thats my problem.

Hmm. Did MPlayer get installed along with KMPlayer? Make sure it is. It only "suggests" MPlayer, but Gecko Media Player depends on it, so it should be installed.

Nathan

[RapMasterC]

Hmm. Did MPlayer get installed along with KMPlayer? Make sure it is. It only "suggests" MPlayer, but Gecko Media Player depends on it, so it should be installed.

Nathan

Mplayer is installed.

[ubuntu-freak]

Mplayer is installed.

Try deleting pluginreg.dat from home/.mozilla/firefox/some.profile. Restart FF.

Also, launch Firefox from Konsole and see if it works then.

Nathan

P.S. Install GNOME MPlayer also.

[RapMasterC]

Try deleting pluginreg.dat from home/.mozilla/firefox/some.profile. Restart FF.

Also, launch Firefox from Konsole and see if it works then.

Nathan

P.S. Install GNOME MPlayer also.

I've deleted pluginreg.dat several times. Gnome Mplayer is also installed. I just ran firefox from konsole and I got this output when it crashed at apple trailers:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libartsc.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622870: NP_GetValue return
process 6660: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5697.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
process 6660: arguments to dbus_connection_set_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5661.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

** ERROR **: Not enough memory to set up DBusConnection for use with GLib
aborting...

[ubuntu-freak]

How did you install Hardy? You're experiencing a bug that should now be fixed. If you ran Hardy since beta, I'd suggest you backup, format and then install fresh. Actually, create a new user account and see if the error is reproduced there first.

Nathan

[RapMasterC]

How did you install Hardy? You're experiencing a bug that should now be fixed. If you ran Hardy since beta, I'd suggest you backup, format and then install fresh. Actually, create a new user account and see if the error is reproduced there first.

Nathan

It was a fresh install but I think firefox 3b5 might have been installed afterwards. Maybe I'll purge it and reinstall it.

[RapMasterC]

How did you install Hardy? You're experiencing a bug that should now be fixed. If you ran Hardy since beta, I'd suggest you backup, format and then install fresh. Actually, create a new user account and see if the error is reproduced there first.

Nathan

I tried to make a new user account and it still comes up with the same error.

[Ghuloomo]

VLC AS DEFAULT DVD PLAYER IN UBUNTU 8.04 HARDY HERON SYSTEMS


To change the default DVD player in Hardy Heron to VLC (I strongly advise you do), open the Terminal and copy and paste this command into it:

gksudo gedit /etc/gnome/defaults.list

Press Ctrl+f and search for "x-content/video", then change the "totem.desktop" entries to "vlc.desktop". Close and save. Next, navigate to Places > Computer > Edit > Preferences > Media > DVD Video, select VLC and then test whether automatic launch and playback with VLC works for you by inserting a DVD. If playback doesn't work properly, navigate to Video > Deinterlace within VLC and select mode "Blend". If that still doesn't solve your issue, or you just want more features enabled upon launch (such as fullscreen upon launch), follow the intructions in the next paragraph.

Right-click on "Applications" in the top panel and select "Edit Menus" to open the default menu editor. Navigate down to "Sound & Video" in the left pane and click on it to show all those applications in the pane to the right. Scroll down the list of applications displayed until you see "VLC media player", right-click on it, then click on "Properties" in the context menu to open "Launcher Properties" and change the launch command from "wxvlc %F" to:

vlc --volume 512 %m

or to have DVD playback automatically launch in fullscreen:

vlc --volume 512 --fullscreen %m

Close the VLC properties dialog and exit the menu editor.

This one helped me a lot

Thank you

[ubuntu-freak]

I tried to make a new user account and it still comes up with the same error.

There may be problems with Gecko Media Player in KDE. Perhaps other Kubuntu users can shed some light on this.

(Yes, that's a request people)

Nathan

Edit: Remove it and tell me how mozilla-mplayer performs, with my settings of course.

[ubuntu-freak]

This one helped me a lot

Thank you

You're welcome.

Nathan