Firefox cannot play video on spaceweather.com

[JD]

On 06/07/2011 03:32 PM, fred smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:19:45PM -0700, JD wrote:
>> Browsing to
>> http://spaceweather.com/swpod2011/07jun11/mflare.mov?PHPSESSID=bdiqboljdoal4e0n4qhm7unb01
>> I get Error banner that FF pops up says it needs quicktime demuxer.
>> When I click on search in the banner, it comes up with
>> "Gstreamer plugins with good code and license"
>> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25-1.fc14.i686
>>
>> However, I already DO have it:
>> $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-good
>> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.26-1.fc14.i686
>>
>> So, what's wrong with FF???
>> It is version:
>> firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14.i686
>>
> that video plays fine for me. Centos 3.6, Firefox 4. Firefox uses
> mplayer to play quicktimes.
>
> what does "about:plugins" in firefox tell you?
>
> here's what mine says:
>
> 	QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5
>
> 	    File: mplayerplug-in-qt.so
> 	    Version:
> 	    mplayerplug-in 3.55
>
> 	    Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
> 	    JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
>
> yum list installed | grep reports:
>
> 	mplayer.i386                 1.0-0.46.svn20100703.el5.rf   installed
> 	mplayer-codecs.i386          3:20061022-1                  installed
> 	mplayer-codecs-extra.i386    3:20061022-1                  installed
> 	mplayer-common.i386          1.0-0.46.svn20100703.el5.rf   installed
> 	mplayer-fonts.noarch         1.1-3.0.rf                    installed
> 	mplayerplug-in.i386          3.55-1.el5.rf                 installed
>
>
>
>
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This is all that I see which is related to quicktime.
There are many other plugins reported for other media.


$ yum list installed 'mplayer*'
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, priorities, 
refresh-
               : packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Installed Packages
mplayer.i686                 4:1.0-82_snap20110414.fc14          @atrpms
mplayer-fonts.noarch         4:1.0-7.at                          @atrpms
mplayer-skins.noarch         4:1.0-16                            @atrpms

atrpms does  not break it down to codecs, common and mplayerplugin.
all, except fonts and skins, are bundled with  mplayer install.


    QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6

    File: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    Version: 
    The Totem <http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/> 2.32.0 plugin
    handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
video/quicktime 	QuickTime Movie 	mov 	Yes
video/mp4 	MPEG-4 video 	mp4 	Yes
image/x-macpaint 	MacPaint Image 	pntg 	Yes
image/x-quicktime 	Macintosh Quickdraw/PICT drawing 	pict, pict1, 
pict2 	Yes
video/x-m4v 	MPEG-4 video 	m4v 	Yes


    MozPlugger 1.14.2 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin

    File: mozplugger.so
    Version: 1.14.2
    MozPlugger version 1.14.2, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter
    Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
    For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man
    page. (type man mozplugger)
    Configuration file: 	/etc/mozpluggerrc
    Helper binary: 	mozplugger-helper
    Controller binary: 	mozplugger-controller
    Link launcher binary: 	mozplugger-linker