Re: mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com

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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:21 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 13:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:18 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > Not an answer to your question, rather a follow-up: mplayerplug-in
> > > > appears not to exist for Fedora 9, at least not in the usual repos. I've
> > > > been unable to view trailers at apple.com since installing F9.
> > > 
> > > Have you tried gecko-mediaplayer?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > To be frank, I suspect that my real problem is I have *too many* plugins
> > and they're probably clashing with each other (even though some are
> > currently disabled). This is basically a result of a lack of clear
> > guidelines as to what is a recommended setup, plus that fact that so
> > many of the various tools (xine, mplayer, vlc etc.) have overlapping
> > funcionality. Sometimes freedom of choice is a pain in the neck :-)
> > 
> > I can't express how deeply I don't care about which video player I use.
> > If I can get one of them to do everything reliably, I'll stick to it and
> > dump the rest, but I suspect that isn't possible.
> > 
> > I'm happy to be proved wrong ...
> ----
> I believe that gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement (on Livna at least)
> for mplayerplug-in.

I'm trying it now (basically by turning off everything that doesn't say
gecko-mediaplayer in the about:plugins page), but the trailers pages say
"Get the Latest QuickTime". as Andre already noted.

> Also with mplayer from livna...something not fixed...you must comment
> out the line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf...
> 
> #flip-hebrew = no
> otherwise, it won't run

I knew that, but thanks.

poc

PS Don't know if this is relevant, but how does gecko-mediaplayer
interact with nspluginwrapper? Should one have both (as I do) or pick
one over the other? There is no hint in what's amusingly called the
"documentation".

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