[SLE] PROGRESS: Re: [SLE] viewing videos using Windows Media Player and Quicktime and SuSE 9.3 -- how to do it?

On Sat December 17 2005 8:23 pm, BandiPat wrote:

(my original e-mail deleted to conserve electrons)

> Gil
> Once you've installed everything and all the plugins are correct, be
> sure to refresh the plugin list in Konq settings. It won't do it
> automatically, unless you have told it to do so each time it starts.


Hi, Pat. Well, I do not know if everything I need has been installed, and I
also don't know if all the plug-ins are correct. However, I've done the
Konqui "refresh" thing numerous times. Does not seem to have made any
difference. In fact Konqui now crashes everytime I try to play one of the
"watch" videos from CNN.com.



> Also, be sure your kaffeine plugin is installed or you have told
> kaffeine settings to use it for such things.


If I type about:plugins to the Firefox browser I get a long list of plugins,
but kaffeine is not there! I don't know how to get it into this list.

RE: kaffeine settings.... How do I tell kaffeine to use the plug-in? I don't
see anything in the kaffeine settings screens.



> Firefox does not always
> get the plugins automatically like Mozilla, so you may have to compare
> the plugins in /opt/mozilla to the ones in /opt/MozillaFirefox
> directories. They should both be the same.


I do not have /opt/mozilla. I do have some plugins in /opt/MozillaFirefox. If
there are specific plugins I should look for in /opt/MozillaFirefox please
tell me which and I can let you know if they are there.

Should I be concerned that I do not have /opt/mozilla?




> Quicktime codecs are
> included in the w32codecs file from Packman, so if your kaffeine plays
> wmv, it should do quicktime also. Sometimes the quicktime files are
> slower to load and decode than the windows files, so if you are
> expecting an immediate response, it may not happen.



Well I finally got Quicktime running (in Firefox), but by a somewhat
circuitous route. I used Crossover Office's "office set-up" feature and let
it find and install Quicktime. But nothing I downloaded from Packman seemed
to work. Quicktime only worked when Crossover Office found it. It now shows
up on the K-Menu in <windows applications/programs>.


So now when I click on that URL I supplied in my first e-mail I am able to
see the Coca Cola commercial. Presumably I'll now be able to see any video
where previously I got only that little icon of the puzzle piece.

Note, however, that Konqui crashes when trying to view the same video.



> I'm using KMplayer and mplayerplug-in for my setup and everything works
> fine. The quicktime site you supplied started right away for me in
> Konq and CNN is just stupid people running a Windows sponsored site!
> Good, got that off my chest. But, mine still works on it as well.
> When it tells you the plugin is not there, just continue to the video,
> it'll play, if you have refreshed Konq settings for plugins and it
> found it!


Well, as I mentioned, Konqui crashes now whenever I try to view either a
Quicktime or Windows Media Player file.

Note also that I tried to install Windows Media Player 9 and 10 via Crossover
Office (same technique I used for Quicktime). But neither seems to install
even though Crossover says the installs are complete. Neither shows up on the
K Menu, and neither launches. So something is screwy there.

Here is the partial printout from about:plugins. I hope the columns line up
so you can read them.

It seems to indicate that Windows Media Player is there. But it doesn't play.
Maybe I have to initialize something??


Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

File name: npcxoffice.npdsplay.so
Npdsplay dll

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/asx Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes
application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes
video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Media Files wma,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wax Media Files wax,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Media Files wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Media Files wvx,* Yes


Would it serve any purpose to post the printout of about:plugins from
Firefox? It's a lot, and I don't want to clog up everyone's e-mail.

Anyway.... a little progress getting Quicktime to play in Firefox, but no
progress at all on Windows Media Player files.

Please advise.
Thanks!
Gil

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