Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Dec 21 04:02:21 UTC 2009
Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko
>
>
>> In your original post you gave 2 URL's
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp
>>
>> The first link leads to videos that are flash. However, they are not
>> directly played by the flash plugin. There is a wrapper around it
>> called "v4.1.0.local 2009-09-03 7:59 PM" which appears not compatible
>> with linux. I cannot play them and I don't have Omega to determine if
>> it can.
>>
>
> Omega can't play them either. As I can play Flash videos anywhere in
> the world... if the tv broadcaster allows them to go outside the
> county and unless a special home made plug-in is requested such as at
> ABC.
>
> Do you have any idea can possibly be the use of such a wrapper, except
> to prevent Linux from reading the videos?
>
>
>> The second link contains several other links...which was referenced in
>> Frank Murphy's response...and to which I replied. Therefore, all of my
>> comments were based on Frank's response and dealt only with the second
>> link. Those links are not being played by a flash player...but by
>> gecko-mediaplayer.
>>
>
> If tou go to Prefrences Applications, you see gecko-mediaplayer listed
> for asf, asx and Windows Media??? I doubt it.
>
>
>> FWIW, I don't have totem installed on my Fedora system. And, if you
>> look you'd find that gecko-mediaplayer is "mplayer" with a new name.
>>
>
> "Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to
> play media in a browser."
>
> http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gecko-mediaplayer
>
> But, in the Preferences, Applications options, you sometimes have
> mplayer, sometimes Gecko Media Player and sometimes GNOME Media
> Player. If this is all the same, it's rather confusing. There's also a
> MozPlugger option.
>
>
From firefox's about:plugins
Windows Media Player Plug-in
File name: gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
Gecko Media Player 0.9.8
Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media
Player streams using MPlayer
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/asx Media Files *
Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI avi,*
Yes
video/msvideo AVI avi,*
Yes
application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes
application/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes
video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp,* Yes
application/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp,* Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wax Windows Media wax,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma,* Yes
application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx,* Yes
audio/wav Microsoft wave file
wav,* Yes
audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file
wav,* Yes
As I said....
Those videos play just fine on my F12 32 bit system. And mplayer is
being used.
Your choice to believe it or not.
--
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. --
Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic" Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 253 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20091221/853e8bee/attachment-0001.bin
More information about the users
mailing list