Re: Learning FireFox and downloading video ??

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On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:53 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I have embarked on figuring out how video etc. should work.  Up to now I
> just followed what I was told and banged random keys until it worked.  I
> got Firefox to use mplayer that way.
> 
> I now want to take the time to figure out what I am doing and I need
> some stupidity help?
> 
> For example; Firefox seems to grab video players, totem, mplayer,
> realplayer etc. at random as plugins.  I can't find anywhere that sets
> up which plugin to use ??.  Gstreamer talks about plugins for its use
> but doesn't indicate what plugs in where?  There are no -- at least I
> can't find -- man pages for gstreamer or its many variations
> (gst-inspect, gst-launch etc.)?  What is and how do I use the
> ~/.gstreamer-0.10/??
Ther are genrally two places that plugins are defined:

1./etc/mozpluggerrc if mozplugger is installed
2. /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z/plugins/
> Fedora includes totem and gstreamer as part of its base install yet
> everybody seems to be throwing it away and running something else.  That
> may be an easy solution but I would like to get both of them going.  And
> understand why.  There is lots to read but I am still at the greek stage
> of understanding.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill
> 
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