Quicktime video files won't play in firefox

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#1

Hi all,

I can download and play the underlying .mov files in mplayer but I can’t stream and play them from within the Apple website in firefox.

I have Edit>Preferences>Applications in firefox set to use the “QuickTime plug-in 7.4.5” for quicktime video.

Any ideas?

Thanks

#2

Try this post.

#3

Thanks, I tried the user agent switcher but I can’t get it to work though.

I also installed the gecko media player from this post Unable to play apple site trailers - Page 7 - openSUSE Forums and still no go.

I may play around with this later, but I think I’ll just avoid their site and also re-think the idea of buying a macbook for uni, which is why I was on their site in the first place.

#4

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:56:03 GMT, david71
<david71@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>marcoant;2040759 Wrote:
>> Try this ‘post’ (http://tinyurl.com/lnns8w).
>
>Thanks, I tried the user agent switcher but I can’t get it to work
>though.
>
>I also installed the gecko media player from this post ‘Unable to play
>apple site trailers - Page 7 - openSUSE Forums’
>(http://tinyurl.com/nloshu) and still no go.
>
>I may play around with this later, but I think I’ll just avoid their
>site and also re-think the idea of buying a macbook for uni, which is
>why I was on their site in the first place.

Be sure to email them about the loss of sales.

#5

Use the gecko-mediaplayer combined with gnome-mplayer - both from packman
Or RedDwarf has a gecko-mediaplayer

Index of /repositories/home:/RedDwarf/openSUSE_11.1

#6

Hi Caf4926,

I have them both installed and up to date from packman but video’s still don’t play directly on Apple’s website.
If I download the video’s, I can play them.

Anyhow, I’m not really bothered by it anymore as everything else seems to work.

#7

I have mplayerplug-in installed, but I thought the same was also true for gecko-mediaplayer, where one needs the firefox addon “user agent” installed in order to fool the quicktime site into streaming the video.

User agent site here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

and my custom user agent settings for this are here:
http://thumbnails8.imagebam.com/5178/852c4a51774815.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/852c4a51774815)

Then prior to visiting the specific trailer, select the user agent one has created (in my case I called the agent quicktime and I would select that, but I could have given it another name instead).

#8

Hi oldcpu,

I just tried the user agent switcher with your settings and it still doesn’t work. Thanks anyway.

I don’t know if others can play the videos on apples site Apple (United Kingdom) - Find Out How - Mac Basics but nothing I’ve tried works.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter as I can easily download and play them if I really need to.

#9

Yes, I just tested that URL, and it works with the settings I noted above in my post. That is using the mplayerplug-in and firefox (I’m using version 3.5.3 of firefox).

BEFORE visiting the site, I select my “quicktime” user agent setting (which basically tells the Apple (UK) web site to stream video as if my PC is a WindowsNT-5.1 Service Pack 3 PC running netscape). Then I go to the site and it “just works”.

I also have libquicktime0-1.1.3-100.pm.102.23 installed from Packman, but I don’t know if that is relevant. mplayerplug-in and mplayer (from Packman) likely do all the work together with firefox (and user agent to ensure the apple site streams the video).

#10

Since version 0.9.8 gecko-mediaplayer automatically changes the user-agent for the apple website.

Yes, it works with both Firefox 3.5.3 and Konqueror 4.3.2.

#11

I just removed gecko-mediaplayer and reinstalled the mplayer plug-in and still nothing. Maybe it has something to do with firefox 3.0.14, although firefox 3.0.7 in windows works, but that’s using the latest quicktime plug-in.

What repository is firefox 3.5.3 available from?

#12

If you look here:
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE
you will find this:
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE - Mozilla

Note even though I provide the above URL, my recommendation for new users is to stick with OSS, Non-OSS, Update, and Packman repositories, and only briefly add (and then remove) other repositories.

#13

I’ve installed firefox 3.5.3 and tried it with both the gecko-mediaplayer and mplayer plug-in, both with and without the user agent switcher. Neither works, although with mplayer and the switcher it starts to play but all pixelated then errors out and sometimes just audio plays.
There must be some problem somewhere else. Maybe one day if I get time I’ll take another look at it, but for now I’m going to bed.
Thanks for your help guys.

#14

Hi
Are you using the gecko-mediaplayer from packman? If so, try the one
from RedDwarf.

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#15

OK, the combination of firefox 3.5.3 and gecko-mediaplayer from RedDwarf works.

Thanks for your help.