Comments on: Online Media Viewing Woes

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:13:42 +0000

Mmm… maybe I’ve missed them, I can search the site again. I’ve been looking for them for a while.

I’ve got Flash stuff working fine (up to Flash 7, and that I can find there’s no plugin for Flash 8). For Flash its in the repository and you install: swf-player (which should also install the gstreamer0.8-swfdec), and libflash-mozplugin, and to go upto Flash 7 you also install the flashplugin-nonfree.

Now… for QuickTime there is one called the kmplayer-konq-plugins which will let you play RealPlayer and Quicktime in Konqueror – but obviously this doesn’t crossover for Firefox. There’s another one called mozilla-plugin-vlc that I have installed and its supposed to let you see streaming QuickTime and several other things in FF … just doesn’t seem to work.

I’ll look around more to see if I can find any that work. It’s just one of those things that really gets on my nerves. I run into it all the time because it seems that language learning sites with audio clips have this unruly tendency to use QT and RM audio files.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:18:51 +0000

There is both Flash and QuickTime and etc. players for linux. It's just a pain to put in place and I, so far, haven't even bothered getting it to work right. There are some tutorials out there though. Just search the Ubuntu Forums. (Wonder if that link will work.)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:20:00 +0000

I have had the mozilla-mplayer installed – perhaps it just doesn’t like me

By: Anonymous helper

Anonymous helper — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:08:36 +0000

I use mozilla-mplayer (you’ll find it in the repository) which has worked for 99 % of the times.