LUG: Got the voice from the trailer, but not the image - Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:12:30 -0400

Subject : LUG: Got the voice from the trailer, but not the image

From : xhu@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:12:30 -0400

Thanks

I copied libXt.a from our henry2 and installed mplayerplug-in
successfully. Now I heard the voice from the trailer, but not the image.
hehe A little progress.

Xiaoming

> To compile mplayerplug-in yourself you will need the mozilla
> development files along with mplayer and its dependencies.
>
> Another route to go if you would prefer to use the Totem media player
> is to install totem with the xine backend (on ubuntu this is
> totem-xine) and the firefox plugin that accompanies it
> (totem-xine-firefox-plugin), along with the windows codecs from the
> plf (http://plf.zarb.org/). I tried this combo on a brand new install
> of Ubuntu 6.06 this weekend and it had no problem with the videos on
> yahoo.
>
> On 6/28/06, xhu@ncsu.[redacted] <xhu@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>> Thanks very much
>>
>> But I didn't install mplayerplug-in successfully.
>> It said "can't find -lXt", I think some static library is missing on my
>> system.
>>
>> Xiaoming
>>
>>
>> > I was curious so I went to yahoo and tried to watch the trailer for
>> > the new Borat movie and had no problems watching the clip. I am
>> > running Ubuntu 6.06 + firefox + mplayerplug-in + windows codecs. I
>> > have found in my experience that the mplayerplug-in
>> > (http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/) is a great addition to any
>> > linux system as it takes care of most media embedded in web sites. It
>> > may be installed on Ubuntu systems with "apt-get install
>> > mozilla-mplayer". I can't remember where I got the deb package with
>> > the windows codecs but they're not to hard to find.
>> >
>> > On 6/24/06, Matthew West <mattwestm@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
>> >> I have never been able to play movies from Yahoo on Linux. The reason
>> >> for this is because the trailers use the Windows Media Player plugin.
>> >> I have even had some problems with playing movies on Windows with
>> >> Firefox. I would assume that this works best with Windows and
>> Internet
>> >> Explorer.
>> >>
>> >> Matthew West
>> >>
>> >> On 6/23/06, xhu@ncsu.[redacted] <xhu@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>> >> > I can't watch those eventough I already installed realplayer 10
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> >
>> >> > Xiaoming
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alex Marten
>> > alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Alex Marten
> alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]
>