On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > > > > > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > > >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > > >> libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play > > >> such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play > > >> videos. In the past, seamonkey was unable to play these videos when the > > >> flash player library was removed. > > >> > > >> What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured what > > >> they use? > > > > > > (...) > > > > > > "about:plugins" will tell what other flash plugins are installed and > > > available for your browser. > > > > Thx, I looked at that and there weren't any. Meanwhile, I tried gnash > > and found that it doesn't work at all. Lightspark depends on > > pulseaudio, and I don't want to install that. Are there any > > alternatives --- preferably using mplayer? > > > > It's no more than a video which mplayer can play once you can download > > it, so what's the problem? > > > There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the > Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot. > Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and vimeo won't play. I got a few youtube videos to play, but they seemed to be using HTML5. I installed the gnash plugin and some of the youtube videos started working, but vimeo isn't working.
I can't figure out how to get the vlc plugin to play anything... By the way, I also notice that there is totem-mozilla in the Squeeze repos, and I have it installed. But I can't seem to use it. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120918004040.gb12...@aurora.owens.net
