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 > -- ======================================================================= Why is it that when you DIE, you can't take your HOME ENTERTAINMENT CENTER with you?? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
