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Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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audio plugins in Firefox

I always have problems with audio or video plugins in Firefox.
Please look at this page:

http://voila.pl/w9ks4/

There are two buttons:
- pobierz (download)
- sluchaj (play)

If I use gxine - all I can get is error message.
If I uninstall gxine and intall mplayer-plugin, I can listen to audio, but I can't download it.

How do you browse such websites?

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: audio plugins in Firefox

both of those open with mplayer-plugin for me, too. to download it, just load it, then right click in the mplayer plugin gray area. there's a "save as" menu item, which you can even configure with a location using the "configure" option.

Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

Website

Re: audio plugins in Firefox

What if you uninstall mplayer-plugin and install gxine? Can you make it work?
I don't want to use gxine, I want to ask is it a bug.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,038

Re: audio plugins in Firefox

Try this MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin for firefox.

That extension is working very well for me with default settings (uses xmms for mp3 ).
It's specifically designed to handle embedded video/audio on websites.

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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: audio plugins in Firefox

it's something to do with the encoding, apparently. i just set my browser to use the gxine plugin, and when the mp3 starts loading it crashes the plugin. it crashes it on slackware, too. the gxine plugin works for other mp3s, so the person probably just used some weird codec to make the mp3.