Re: mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com

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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:52 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
> Been there, done that, have an overloaded /plugins directory.
> 
> > 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 have gecko-mediaplayer happily playing most of my embedded videos 
> using mplayer or something else.  Flash was a bit of struggle, until I 
> got *both* versions of libflashsupport installed on my x86_64 laptop.
> However, I cannot play the Apple trailers either.  Maybe they have 
> versioned their quicktime stuff and we have to wait for updates to the 
> FOSS stuff?
> 
> If you want to look at it, I'm attaching a cut/paste of my about:plugins 
> page....
[...]

Looks pretty similar (modulo a line-by-line comparison).

> Good Luck

Thanks. It would be nice to know if anyone is seeing the Apple trailers
on F9, and if so, how.

poc

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