Media player plugin frustrations

[jaychamp]

I've tried diligently the last few days to get firefox to play Real and Window Media files but I just can't get it and it's frustrating the hell out of me.

I tried the Wiki directions. Installed Kmplayer then KMEncoder and the KMEncoder says mplayer is not installed. Liar!!

I tried installing just mplayer and KMEncoder. Same error

Tried mplayer with mplayerplug-in and plugger. No luck. The plugins are in firefox but nothing is working except for SOME Real files, but not RAM files.

This is what frustrates me about Linux. It just shouldn't be this difficult. I really really want Kubuntu to be my primary OS but I watch alot of media

Anyone have any ideas for me?

This is the error from kmencoder:

dpkg -i kmencoder_0.1.2-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kmencoder.
(Reading database ... 81545 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kmencoder (from kmencoder_0.1.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kmencoder:
 kmencoder depends on mplayer; however:
 Package mplayer is not installed.
 kmencoder depends on kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.0.6); however:
 Package kdelibs4 is not installed.
 kmencoder depends on libpng3; however:
 Package libpng3 is not installed.
 kmencoder depends on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810); however:
 Package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 is not installed.
 kmencoder depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
 Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kmencoder (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kmencoder

[actinic]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

maybe one of these links might help ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=177646
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full

[jaychamp]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

maybe one of these links might help ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=177646
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full

The second link helped alot thank you. I'm still getting an issue with Real Player that I had before when I got it working. It skips very badly. I've tried every possible setting in Real's preferences to no avail. Happens with both audio and video files.

[jaychamp]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

Someone must have had this issue. I just did a fresh install on my other computer and Realplayer is skipping there too

[Rob_H]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

Yes, I have this problem, too. Real Player skips so much that it is unusable. It seems to be particularly bad with higher-bandwidth streams. But I know it is not a network issue because a Windows box sharing the same Internet connection has no problems.

[BigLee]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

Im new to Linux myself, but could your problems be an issue with your graphics card?

I do recall reading something regarding video playback, and how you need to use the manufactorers settings if at all possible as it can make even a super quick pc slow as a P2 in regard to video playback without them.

Just an idea as it seems your covering every normal angle.

[Rob_H]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

Good thought, but it skips on many audio-only streams, too. I've uninstalled Real Player for now and I'm using the totem-xine-firefox-plugin Works much better.

[klerfayt]

Re: Media player plugin frustrations

you need w32codecs