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I have gecko media player installed, and it works perfectly in Firefox, but in Chromium I get audio, but no controls or video. I have a bunch of entries in my about:plugins for gecko as well.
Is there something else I should use or some way to fix gecko media player? I tried renaming the .so files in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but that didn't change a thing.
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this response is based entirely off of assumptions, as i have no actual knowledge of any of this:
as far as i understand it, firefox is built on the gecko engine, and chromium is built off the webkit engine. so while a gecko plugin will work for firefox, you would get limited or no functionality in a webkit-based browser like chromium, midori, etc. i THINK you need gstreamer plugins for your stuff to work.
again, i don't know any of this for sure, but try running
pacman -Qs gstreamer
and see if you have any packages installed for it.
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this response is based entirely off of assumptions, as i have no actual knowledge of any of this:
as far as i understand it, firefox is built on the gecko engine, and chromium is built off the webkit engine. so while a gecko plugin will work for firefox, you would get limited or no functionality in a webkit-based browser like chromium, midori, etc. i THINK you need gstreamer plugins for your stuff to work.
again, i don't know any of this for sure, but try running
pacman -Qs gstreamer
and see if you have any packages installed for it.
I just tried installing the totem-plugin package and disabling the gecko media player plugins in about:plugins but that had the same results as before (I got audio, but no controls or video)
[phil@fml ~]$ pacman -Qs gstreamer
local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.35-1
GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.35-1
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.35-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.11-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.30-1
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.30-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.21-1
Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.18-2
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.18-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly)
local/totem 3.0.1-3 (gnome-extra)
A GNOME3 integrated movie player based on Gstreamer.
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Install "totem-plugin" to get the browser plugin.
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Install "totem-plugin" to get the browser plugin.
In my previous post I mentioned that I tried that with no luck.
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Have you tried deleting all chromium config files in the ~/.config folder? Perhaps chromium is still trying to use gecko based on something holding it up in there.
Honestly I have no ideas, but now I really want to fix it.
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In my previous post I mentioned that I tried that with no luck.
Ahh sorry. Does the plugin not work for all videos? Or are only having problems with one site or type of video?
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the o.p. title indicates it is only for DivX and AVI files... i've never tried to play either of these within chromium before.
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Have you tried deleting all chromium config files in the ~/.config folder? Perhaps chromium is still trying to use gecko based on something holding it up in there.
Honestly I have no ideas, but now I really want to fix it.
Tried that, no luck.
Here is a link to a particular video: http://tinyurl.com/427x2ak
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Tried that, no luck.
Here is a link to a particular video: http://tinyurl.com/427x2ak
that website is a trainwreck (clicked the link on my wifes computer that doesn't have a customized hosts file, ads everywhere, popups, holy hell)
do you use kde as your DE? if so, do you have the proper phonon packages?
can you play DivX and/or AVI files in a separate player successfully? i know you mentioned that it works in firefox...
i wonder if it has anything to do with the way chromium passes instructions to other programs, as explained in the wiki here... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … nvironment
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Dethredic wrote:Tried that, no luck.
Here is a link to a particular video: http://tinyurl.com/427x2ak
that website is a trainwreck (clicked the link on my wifes computer that doesn't have a customized hosts file, ads everywhere, popups, holy hell)
do you use kde as your DE? if so, do you have the proper phonon packages?
can you play DivX and/or AVI files in a separate player successfully? i know you mentioned that it works in firefox...
i wonder if it has anything to do with the way chromium passes instructions to other programs, as explained in the wiki here... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … nvironment
haha, with add block the site is fine. I use openbox as my WM and I don't have a DE. I just think that it is weird that I get sound but no audio / video so the plugin must at least load
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That is the reason why I had to move from chromium to google-chrome - it has better support for video playback and is also able to play HTML5-style MP3 files, i.e. <audio> tags.
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That is the reason why I had to move from chromium to google-chrome - it has better support for video playback and is also able to play HTML5-style MP3 files, i.e. <audio> tags.
And you had to bump a year-old thread to say this?
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