Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

[release]

How can I play embedded video in firefox? I get "missing plugin" "application/x-mplayer2". Tried googling around and checking forums, but I can't seem to figure it out

[Rog131]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

You (well, i) need (browser) + media player + plugin:

mplayer + mozilla-mplayer
or
VLC+ mozilla-plugin-vlc
or
kaffeine + kaffeine-mozilla


Links:

Topic: How do I install a Quicktime plugin for Firefox in Kubuntu?
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089978.0

Topic: quicktime/wmv ?
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087813.0

[release]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

I have vlc + mozilla-plugin, mplayer + mozilla-plugin and kaffeine + mozilla-plugin..

[Rog131]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

What aboutlugins tells ?


Hmm ? :

Firefox can’t play application/x-mplayer2 embeds
http://blog.ryaneby.com/archives/fir...layer2-embeds/

Windows Media Player
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_Media_Player


Don't know if this is the problem, but do you have w32 codecs ?

[release]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

Aboutlugins

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r115

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
Default Plugin

File name: libnullplugin.so
The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* All types .* No

I can see that no of the vlc, mplayer og kaffein plugins are mentioned, but they are installed on the system. Do I have to add them in some way in firefox ?

[Rog131]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

I'm using mplayer + mozilla-mplayer. So here aboutlugins is telling of Windows Media Player Plugin/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so:


=> Searching mplayerplug-in-wmp.so:

It should be in ~/.mozilla/plugins/. If it isn't there:

1) Using locate

:~$ locate mplayerplug-in-wmp.so

/home/rog/.mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
/usr/lib/iceape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so

2) Using apt-file /1/

:~$ apt-file find mplayerplug-in-wmp.so

mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mozilla-mplayer: usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so

That means:
From package mozilla-mplayer to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/...

I have copied mplayerplug-in-wmp.so to the ~/.mozilla/plugins/.


/1/ How to: search for files in packages, installed or not
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089149.0

[Rog131]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

By Ubuntu packages
http://packages.ubuntu.com/
(in gutsy, architecture i386)

mozilla-mplayer installs:

mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
mplayerplug-in-qt.so
mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
mplayerplug-in-rm.so
mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-in.xpt

Package Contents Search Results

mozilla-plugin-vlc installs:

libvlcplugin.so

Package Contents Search Results

kaffeine-mozilla installs:

kaffeineplugin.so
kaffeineplugin.a
kaffeineplugin.la

Package Contents Search Results

[monte48lowes]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

The easiest method for me is to use konqueror to view pages such as NASCAR.com when the broadcast a race. I normally use Opera for daily surfing.

Mike

[release]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

Think I figured it out. All the plugins were in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, copied everything to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ , seems to be working.. however kaffeine started in a separate window instead of playing in the "embedded" window on the site..

[dimmutal]

Re: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2

Think I figured it out. All the plugins were in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, copied everything to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ , seems to be working.. however kaffeine started in a separate window instead of playing in the "embedded" window on the site..

release, i did as you suggested and everything works fine! I can now listen to my favorite station streaming through firefox. There is one minor problem though. When the streaming window opens, although i can listen to the station, the area where the control buttons should appear (play, pause, voice etc) is black and inside it says no video. Any ideas?