Problems Watching Embedded Video In Firefox

Just installed v10.3.
Either I'm missing some packages/libraries or smth is well malfunctioning. I can watch flash-player videos, but movies (divx; flv format ???) are not seen - only empty box in the place where should be a videoplayer window.

mozilla mplayerplug-in is installed, as well as VLC, Real, MPlayer and Co.

I have MediaConnectivity, but this doesn't help much.

Finally, in the version 10.2 I didn't face such problems.


Need help.
Thanks.

Finally, in the version 10.2 I didn't face such problems.[/b]

:blink: and what did you have installed on 10.2 that you don't have on 10.3?

:blink: and what did you have installed on 10.2 that you don't have on 10.3?
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Good point. I don't know :unsure:

do you have 32 bit or 64bit? have you checked here?: da link

I'm struggling a bit with your query, as you have not given us much to go on. For example, you note:

I can watch flash-player videos, but movies (... flv format ???) are not seen[/b]

To the best of my knowledge flv IS flash-video. So on the one hand you state you can watch flash-player-video, and the other hand you say you can not. That simply does not make sense to me.

Have you installed w32codec-all ? Have you installed xvid? divx? divx4linux?

I recommend you surf the Packman packager site and see what applications are available. The search function works great on that site. http://packman.links2linux.de/

I'm struggling a bit with your query, as you have not given us much to go on. For example, you note:To the best of my knowledge flv IS flash-video. So on the one hand you state you can watch flash-player-video, and the other hand you say you can not. That simply does not make sense to me.

Have you installed w32codec-all ? Have you installed xvid? divx? divx4linux?

I recommend you surf the Packman packager site and see what applications are available. The search function works great on that site. http://packman.links2linux.de/
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I do agree partially. When I use MediaConnectivity button I see that the stream I cannot open has "flvplayer.swf" ref. That's why I misled you.

I just found that I do not have divx4linux in my system. When I try to use Yast2 to look it up, it doesn't find it in the repositories (here I have to mention that as repositories I marked all the available buttons except the "sources" repository for experts)

Trying to install given package from packman gives finally following:

Software installation
Installation was only partially successful.
The following packages could not be installed
divx4linux

et voila.

Any comments, pls ?

I just downloaded divx4linux-20030428-0.pm.0.i586.rpm from packman and tried to install it using terminal:


rpm -ivh divx4linux-20030428-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
warning: divx4linux-20030428-0.pm.0.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5277a2fa
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is needed by divx4linux-20030428-0.pm.0.i586

it seems that this libstdc is like pain in the ***.

I may want to try to link this one with libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so , but will it be a good solution ?...

thanks for help

Upon reflection, you probably don't need divx nor divx4linux to play video with firefox.

I would check your settings and plugins for firefox. Maybe they are interfering. I only have:
- mplayerplug-in
- flash-player
as plugins. And I have DownloaderHelper and User Agent as extensions.

IMHO your problem lies elsewhere.

Upon reflection, you probably don't need divx nor divx4linux to play video with firefox.

I would check your settings and plugins for firefox. Maybe they are interfering. I only have:
- mplayerplug-in
- flash-player
as plugins. And I have DownloaderHelper and User Agent as extensions.

IMHO your problem lies elsewhere.
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OK, I checked settings. The stream I want to watch is ascribed to application/x-shockwave-flash

Can I watch it with smth else, ot how can I refer to mplayerplug-in (where is an executable ???) ?

out of curiosity, how does konqueror work with the embedded feeds? try that and tell us.....