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haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 96

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[solved] Play video/mp4 in firefox

Hi!
I'd love to play the movies on this site, but firefox tells me "Unknown plugin: video/mp4". When i click "install manually" it sends me to apple.com, and naturally Apple doesn't support Linux

So - which packages would i have to install to make video/mp4 work in firefox? Is there maybe a howto?
I do have mplayer installed, so it should be a matter of symlinking or so, shouldn't it?

Thanks in advance

P.S: I can - of course - play them directly with

mplayer http://www.farin-urlaub.de/stuff/dwuel_songbook/pakistan_git_tutorial_FU.mp4
mplayer http://www.farin-urlaub.de/stuff/dwuel_songbook/die_leiche_git_tutorial_FU.mp4

But how can i make Firefox do this?

Last edited by haukew (2009-09-10 11:17:44)

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: [solved] Play video/mp4 in firefox

I'm not certain, but mplayer-plugin from Extra repo perhaps?

haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 96

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Re: [solved] Play video/mp4 in firefox

yeah, that was it - thanks a lot!:)