I’m managed to get a number of audio/video files to work. The DVD doesn’t work very well. My problem is they don’t work as plugins in firefox well. I’d like to configure a player or multiple players to play midi, mp3 and wma files.
I have a professionally done DVD of my daughters high school graduation which has a menu and plays in kaffeine. The problem is that there is a lot of movement in the video with the camera panning and kids with heads and tassels nodding that the playback displays a constant stream of blurred faces. When the movement is toned down there is much less blurring. This same video in windows plays solid with no blurring.
I have a 4 year old HP Pavillion zx5000 Notebook, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV280 5c61 video, Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2-default i686, openSUSE 11.0 (i586), 4.0.4 (KDE 4.0.4 >= 20080505) “release 15.2”.
Is this sort of thing to be expected and is there something that can be done to improve the playback?
I haven’t tried sites with video content except flashplayer, but I would like a recommendation for a good general purpose video player which works as a plugin for firefox.
I have a website which has several forms of audio music on the page. An embedded midi is supposed to play when the page is loaded. The midi can be turned off through a plugin. I’ve been able to download the midi through a link on the page and play it with timidity both from a command line and through the gui. I’ve also been able to download it from firefox and open with timidity. I’d like to be able to play it from withing the browser with a plugin.
While playing with the download file I found a kde3 midi application which I have since deleted since I couldn’t hear any sound ( I think that was on opensuse 11.1 which I am still trying to configure. These questions refer to opensuse 11.0 which I’ve configured so that it mostly works. ) I don’t see anything like that for kde4. Is there a way to associate a midi player with midi files?
The page has a link to play a wma and a mp3 version of the song. I can download these files and play from amarok. Is there a way to associate these file with a player so when they are clicked on the player starts?
I installed the xine-plugin when I click on the mp3 it plays from with in the browser in a complete black tab with no controls. I’d like to have some controls on the player, but this is the closest I’ve come to a music plugin for firefox which functions.
When I click on the wma file firefox offers to download the file and open in mplayer. Last time it opened it with smplayer. I don’t know what happened there.
The web page I’ve used to do these tests is:
The Ballad of the Cross : Elton Smith and Larry Holder
I used to know a website that embedded mp3 files (very unfriendly) in its web pages. I can’t find the site any more but I’d hope that a plugin would be able to play such a site.
I’d like midi, mp3, and wma files to open within the browser with a plugin with controls. Do you have any recommendations?
I also wondered if there was a plugin to load pdf files within a browser other than adobe?
On a side note. I’m having trouble with linux right now I can alt-tab ( also click on applications which are non minimized ) between application windows but I cannot use the application bar below. Volume control, update, amarok all respond on the right but the icons on the far left and the application icons do not respond to a click or mouse over which I’ve come to expect. I don’t know how to respond to this except perhaps kill the x-server or reboot which I’ll do presently.
Leslie