Fix for mplayer in Firefox under Ubuntu is not working
Online videos (mpeg and some wmv files) were not playing in Firefox under Ubuntu Edgy in my desktop.The problem could be mplayer for Firefox installed and totem for Firefox plugin also installed .First You need to uninstalled the totem plugin from the terminal using the following command sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla
Now you need to reinstalled mplayer plugin for Mozilla and now your mplayer should work in firefox.
If you don’t want to uninstall totem plugin, you can try this in a terminal
login as root
cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
mkdir oldtotemfiles
mv libtotem* oldtotemfiles (move to totem plugins)
Now you need to reinstall mplayer plugin for firefox using the following command
sudo apt-get install –reinstall mozilla-mplayer
This should get mplayer to work.
source:ubuntugeek
Tags: Firefox, Internet, Linux, mplayer, Software, sudo, ubuntu, ubuntu_edgy, videos_mpeg, Web
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