Package: gecko-mediaplayer Version: 1.0.8-1 Severity: normal Hello, I wanted to check that bug #689862 is still fixed in gnome-mplayer/1.0.8-1 + gecko-mediaplayer/1.0.8-1
To my great surprise, the following happened: 0) I started iceweasel 1) I opened a video in a new tab, for instance: http://content.funny-base.com/videos2/trunkmonkey01.wmv 2) iceweasel behaves exactly as if none of the installed plugins were able to deal with this file type: it popped up a dialog window, offering me to download the video or to open it with GNOME MPlayer 3) I chose to open the video with GNOME MPlayer and a standalone instance of gnome-mplayer appeared, playing the video correctly 4) I then tried the web page that embeds the same video: http://www.funny-base.com/videos/792-trunkmonkey01.html 5) the NoScript extension blocked the JavaScript code; I right-clicked on the page and selected "Temporarily allow funny-base.com" from the NoScript submenu 6) an iceweasel warning appeared inside a yellow bar at the top of the web page, claiming that "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page"; the area that should embed the video showed a similar warning ("A plugin is needed to display this content") 7) I don't want to install plugins for my regular user, I strongly prefer to install Debian packages (as root), so that plugins and extensions are installed system-wide (for all the users); but, still, I wanted to see what would have have been installed: I tried to click on the "Install plugin" link 8) a dialog window appeared running the Plugin Finder Service and saying that "No suitable plugins were found", "Unknown Plugin (video/x-ms-wmv)"... N.B.: with other videos, the MIME type claimed to be associated to an unknown plugin may be different (for instance video/x-msvideo) Why does gecko-mediaplayer claim that additional plugins are needed to play the above-mentioned videos, while gnome-mplayer is able to play them, when running in a standalone window? Is this a bug or did I misunderstand something? The same web pages used to work correctly with gnome-mplayer/1.0.7-2 + gecko-mediaplayer/1.0.6-1, hence this looks like a regression... Please fix this issue and/or forward my report upstream. Thanks for your time! -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gecko-mediaplayer depends on: ii gconf2 3.2.5-1+build1 ii gnome-mplayer 1.0.8-1 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libcurl3 7.26.0-1+wheezy2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libgmlib1 1.0.7-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 gecko-mediaplayer recommends no packages. gecko-mediaplayer suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org