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I want to use the mplayer plugin to play video in firefox. I have both the plugin, and mplayer itself installed. However, in Ubuntu, Totem is also installed by default ...
  1. 12-10-2005 #1
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    Help with video in firefox...

    I want to use the mplayer plugin to play video in firefox. I have both the plugin, and mplayer itself installed. However, in Ubuntu, Totem is also installed by default (can't remove it either, or the whole ubuntu-desktop package gets removed.) Right now all videos in firefox automatically try to open with totem. How do I make mplayer the default player for in-page video?
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    do you have the .so file in plugins directory and the .xpt file in the components directory? If not sure go to those and look for mplayer-plugin.so and .xpt files in there. Here is some instructions:

    http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

    you can also see what plugins are installed by typing this in your url window

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    you can also try to install the mozplugger package (I know it exist in debian, I don't know about ubuntu)
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    You could try removing the totem plugins from the plugins directory and make sure just the mplayer-plugin ones are there. No guarantees though.

    For me, the plugins are in /opt/mozilla-plugins/ but it may be different for you.

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