HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

[manicka]

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?

sudo apt-get update

[lostdata]

i did apt-get update but its still not finding anything...

[manicka]

please post your sources.list

[silex]

So, I've done what you proscribed and it seems to work well, all the way through buffering a movie trailer form apple to 99%. When it hits 99% it stops and just sits there indefinitely... Has anyone else had this problem or have a workaround?

[onesojourner]

I have the same problem. it loads 99% then stops.

If I download the script that you posted what do I do with it?

[jeffreyvergara.NET]

will this only install mplayer plugin for firefox and not the whole mplayer? I really don't want to have too many media player installed.

[NeoChaosX]

Some version of mplayer is necessary for it's plugin to work. You can just install mplayer-nogui so you don't have to deal with the player being in your menu, though.

[manis]

Hi,
Our friend said:

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.

And I suggest you to use Gxine as your browser plugin with Firefox. I have tried this application - the sound and picture is very good.
tk

[mjukr]

Thanks for this howto. This guide is the only one that's resulting in successful viewing of embedded videos on http://trailers.apple.com.

THANKS!!!

[majkmil]

Thanks, Works great! I was a little suprised when I went to NFL.COM and RealPlayer was replaced by MPLAYER. I tried the trailers on the apple site and they looked great.