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aloniv

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Is there any way to use it with gecko-mediaplayer on Midori or Epiphany? I only managed to get it to work with Totem on these browsers. Icecat works fine wih gecko-mediaplayer.

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В 21:18 +0100 на 09.01.2012 (пн), alonivtsan[@nospam] написа:
> Is there any way to use it with gecko-mediaplayer on Midori or Epiphany? I
> only managed to get it to work with Totem on these browsers. Icecat works
> fine wih gecko-mediaplayer.

It should work, but I haven't tested it recently. There is support for
gecko-media-player JavaScript API in Linterna Mágica, so web controls
could work.

Have in mind that I have experienced problems with two or more video
plugins handling the same mimetype - clips doesn't load and/or the
browser reports wrong plugin that handles the mimetype. As far as I
remember in all browsers. My solution is to uninstall video plugins that
are not needed. There is a trick with Totem (totem-mozilla). You can't
simply remove the package, because it is a ... core dependency in
Trisquel and you will loose the packages for the entire desktop
environment. So, I am fixing that problem by manually removing the
libtotem* files in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/:

sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem*

Kind of ugly but it works. After browser restart other video plugins
should work. Fixing totem-mozilla later is achieved by:

aptitude reinstall totem-mozilla

which will add the deleted files.

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aloniv

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Thanks for the reply ivaylo.

I'm actually trying this on Parabola GNU/Linux libre. Removing totem-plugin there and installing gecko-mediaplayer gives a waiting for plugin error when using Midori and Epiphany. It might however be related to this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gecko-mediaplayer/+bug/724070

I opened a bug in Parabola about this issue:

https://bugs.parabolagnulinux.org/bugs/issue348

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В 10:56 +0100 на 10.01.2012 (вт), alonivtsan[@nospam] написа:
> Thanks for the reply ivaylo.
>
> I'm actually trying this on Parabola GNU/Linux libre. Removing totem-plugin
> there and installing gecko-mediaplayer gives a waiting for plugin error when
> using Midori and Epiphany.

I can confirm this. I've tested with gecko-media-player 1.0.5 from
Ubuntu PPA, since the package is not in Trisquel. It seems the plugin is
not available at all in Epiphany and Midori.

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