On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 22:00, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 21:01 -0200, Andre Costa wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 19:59, Patrick O'Callaghan > > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 12:49 -0700, john wendel wrote: > > > On 10/24/2009 09:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 09:41 -0700, john wendel wrote: > > > >>> I find it interesting that the Apple TV ads do play on > > F11, which is > > > >> an > > > >>> admission that QT is a niche format. > > > >>> > > > >>> poc > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> I just installed gecko-mediaplayer (F11) and it plays the > > trailers at > > > >> apple.com just fine. > > > > > > > > If you mean the TV ads, then that's what I said. If you > > mean the other > > > > stuff, e.g. http://www.apple.com/imac/the-new-imac/#small > > then no, and I > > > > do have gecko-mediaplayer installed. > > > > > > > > poc > > > > > > > > > > No, I mean the trailers at www.apple.com/trailers. I just > > player the HD > > > version of the trailer for "Red Cliff". Worked perfectly. I > > also tried > > > your imac url. It also played (but it was too boring to > > watch more that > > > 2 minutes of the 7:09). > > > > > > The movie trailers do work. The Apple promo stuff doesn't > > (except for > > the TV ads as I said). > > > > > Do you have the full mplayer codec pack installed? > > > > > > I believe so, but since it's not an RPM I'd have to check the > > files one > > by one. The latest codecs tarball on the Mplayer site is a > > couple of > > years old so I doubt that's the problem. > > > > AFAIK you only need to have all the gstreamer-plugins-* packages (and, > > of course, their dependencies). Here's what I have: > > > > > > ~ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer-plugins > > gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.x86_64 > > gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.15-4.fc11.x86_64 > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-2.fc11.x86_64 > > gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-1.fc11.x86_64 > > gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-6.fc11.x86_64 > > > > > > (BTW I had to install some of them -- the "ugly" package IIRC -- by > > hand, dependencies were not being pulled automatically) > > $ rpm -qa \*gstreamer-plugins\* > gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.x86_64 > gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-2.fc11.x86_64 > gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.15-4.fc11.x86_64 > gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-1.fc11.x86_64 > gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-6.fc11.x86_64 > > Looks identical. > > > I just replaced totem-mozplugin with gecko-mediaplayer, and trailers > > are playing just fine again. > > I had both of them for some reason. Once I removed totem-mozplugin and > restarted FF, the Apple stuff worked. Most likely this was the problem: probably totem-mozplugin was being picked instead of gecko-mediaplayer. > > This is good because there's a way out after all, but on the other > > hand this is bad for totem (and Fedora) since it means that default > > installations will fail to play the trailers (question: will this be > > the case for F12 as well?), and on the user's eyes it will be one of > > those cases where Fedora is "quite not there yet". > > > > > > I just did some quick searching on Fedora bugzilla to see if this has > > already been filed as a totem or totem-mozplugin bug, but did not find > > anything. Does anyone know if it's already there? If it's not, > > developers have all the reasons not to have addressed it yet... :-( > > Default installations are never going to have the non-free codecs in any > case. The user will always have to install them for himself. You're right. What I meant is that, even if you install the codecs (which are automatically suggested if you try to watch a trailer), it won't work until you replace the default media player plugin for another one. That's one step further, it's not intuitive and shouldn't be necessary IMHO. Regards, Andre
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