Windows Media Plugin for Firefox

mikesol · December 26, 2009, 6:53pm

Hello guys

I am from Costa Rica, but now I am living in France, and I really want to watch TV from CR in this site

but the problem is I need a plugin for Windows Media Player. I found that

Using the Windows Media Player plugin with Firefox

I install gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer, and then it’s impossible open firefox, because it starts and holds a few seconds and closes again.

I really don’t know how to do, and really I’ll appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

Happy Holidays

caf4926 · December 26, 2009, 7:32pm

You need gecko-mediaplayer from RedDwarf
Add this repo
Index of /repositories/home:/RedDwarf/openSUSE_11.2

This assumes you are 11.2

Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

mikesol · December 26, 2009, 8:14pm

Thanks for your very clear response. Really works!

Just a little inconvenient is that the video doesn’t have any sound. I have to install another thing or it’s a problem of configuration.

I really appreciate your help, thanks again.

caf4926 · December 26, 2009, 8:18pm

Right click on the playing screen - show controls
Unmute the sound

mikesol · December 26, 2009, 8:48pm

Not work, I put in the max volume and there is not sound and the slider return to mute automatically

???

Thanks

caf4926 · December 26, 2009, 9:27pm

It works for me
Sorry, not sure what you should try

You could try the vlc mozilla plugin from Packman repo
But you would need to remove gecko to try it

mikesol · December 27, 2009, 12:08am

I am making all the tutorial again but I can’t see this image ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing due to the page is blocked by my proxy. you could repost in another server please.

Thanks

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 4:35am

try this

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pQ5wSAjiMxKJaZughVSakJFuVsmhXBB2VHyGbBYY-ha2jT0jo8jdOZ_lYRVnIj3g_InXdXVWRc69q32mkVsBbgg/Packman%20Filter%20Final.png

mikesol · December 27, 2009, 8:42am

I made all the tutorial again and installed the vlc-mozillaplugin and nothing.

I want to give up with this but I really want to watch this TV channel. :’(

Thanks

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 8:45am

I suspect that gecko is you best bet
You may just need to fiddle with your sound settings

But .wmv stuff is not easy. Microsoft doesn’t want it to be! They hope you’ll switch to windows. Vendor lock in, I hate it.

mikesol · December 27, 2009, 8:59am

Yes I know Microsoft is a really %$#@#@$

Well, I going to try some configuration of the sound, but i really don’t know how to start.

Sorry I am really newbie in this stuff. There is some options with alsa, esd, oss, etc… What is the best??

Thanks

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 9:31am

Alsa is what you want

Am I correct thinking you use Gnome?
I don’t so I’m a little fuzzy with it.

Is sound OK generally?

mikesol · December 27, 2009, 3:48pm

Yes the sound works pretty, Amarok, Skype, etc

I am using Suse 11.2 with KDE 4.3

I tried this, maybe here we can find the problem

http://pastebin.com/f7b86fd34

Thanks

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 5:15pm

do you have ffmpeg installed

mikesol · December 27, 2009, 6:04pm

Not, but I installed it and still without sound…

pastebin - collaborative debugging tool

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 7:05pm

I think it’s rather difficult for me to recommend much more. By all accounts you should be OK. But .wmv is very hit and miss

mikesol · December 29, 2009, 8:27pm

I opened the stream with vlc and this appears,

Pas de décodeur approprié pour le format:
VLC ne supporte probablement pas le format audio ou vidéo « wmas ». Malheureusement il n’y a rien à faire.

WMAS? Where I can find this codec?

Thanks

mikesol · December 30, 2009, 3:11pm

Maybe this helps for found de missing codec

Thanks

VIDEO:  [WMV3]  320x240  24bpp  1000.000 fps  280.0 kbps (34.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 title: Plan Piloto ICE
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=title
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=Plan Piloto ICE
 author: ICE
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=author
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=ICE
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=2
ID_FILENAME=http://201.195.239.28/webcanal7
ID_DEMUXER=asf
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=WMV3
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=280000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=320
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=240
ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=10
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=1844674407365.96
ID_SEEKABLE=0
ERROR: Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
ID_CHAPTERS=0
ERROR: Enable it at compilation.
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
ERROR: Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
==========================================================================
ERROR: Enable it at compilation.
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffwmv3
==========================================================================
**Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3...
Trying to force audio codec driver family ...
ERROR: Requested audio codec family [wma9spdmo] (afm=dmo) not available.
Audio: no sound**
ERROR: Enable it at compilation.
Starting playback...
ERROR: Requested audio codec family [wma9spdshow] (afm=dshow) not available.
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
ERROR: Enable it at compilation.
ERROR: Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.
ERROR: [swscaler @ 0xd219c0]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
[swscaler @ 0xd219c0]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 
Resizing to 320 x 240
ERROR: Failed to get value of property 'sub_demux'.
ID_AUDIO_TRACK=-2
Thread: state = QUIT, shutting down
Thread completing