Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Question for the readers

Now depending on how this post goes I may make this type of post happen more often. By looking at my site statistics a decent amount of you read this forum. I am also sure we have readers from all levels of Linux, and maybe we could get more interaction and more ways to help others.

So here is the idea behind this type of post. I will post a question, and users can answer it in the comments section. This will help each other teach each other....that sounds strange but you get the point.

So the question for this week:

How can you get quicktime video to play in Firefox like the videos that are on the Apple website?

So if you know how to do this share your answer. Also maybe if you register for the comments we can award points for people who first give the answer that works, and we can keep track

I do not receive and compensation if you register for the comments, the point in me saying if your registered we will track you points is because, its hard to track points if you keep changing user names.

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Jack Kerouac · 917 weeks ago

Mplayer will play Quicktime videos just fine. I was just on apple.com/trailers and viewed the trailers inside firefox no problem.
3 replies · active 916 weeks ago
does Firefox use mplayer by default? cause they wont play in my Firefox. How can I get mplayer to be default video player?
you have to install mozilla-mplayer package.
If I have it do i need to set it up or does it just work?
I tried a few things but couldn't get it. I am new to Linux and am using Ubuntu. I tried installing a bunch of codecs, but all I ended up with was sound on my Totem movie player.
I've been using the mplayer plug in under firefox for years. It's one of the few packages that I haven't switched for a better one for as long as I've used linux.
I've been using the mplayer plug in under firefox for years. It's one of the few packages that I haven't switched for a better one for as long as I've used linux.
1 reply · active 917 weeks ago
yeah mplayer is used quite a bit and supports many formats. I mainly used it for wmv support. (But now that youtube, brightcove and all those other video sites use flash, it has made it much easier)
totem-mozilla, if you are using totem-gstreamer and all the plugins installed (pretty much everything starting with gstreamer0.10-* and w32codecs), the videos on apple's website will play magically. They do on my computers. Totem gstreamer is great, it's just that not many people know how to install all the plugins possible.
2 replies · active 917 weeks ago
Totem works for me as well (although I do like the mplayer plugin better, I've just never installed it on my Xubuntu machine).

Not sure how I got them to work.

Does installing ubuntu-restricted-extras do the trick?

If all else fails, the VLC plugin would probably work as well.
Totem works for me as well (although I do like the mplayer plugin better, I've just never installed it on my Xubuntu machine).

Not sure how I got them to work.

Does installing ubuntu-restricted-extras do the trick?

If all else fails, the VLC plugin would probably work as well.
What's a good site to go to to test all different streaming formats?
Great No wit works for me. Thanks everyone who helped out. The suggestions that helped me get it to work were this:

I already had totem-mozilla and after installing totem-gstreamer things worked on the apple website.

The only problem I had was that the progress bar below vidoes didnt move, and the pause button next to that didnt realy work. I could pausse it but then not get it goign from that spot...

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