Playing Flash and video media in Firefox

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 21:14:39 PDT 2005


On 10/7/05, Ian Moore <no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 08:24, edward wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm not quite sure how to get Firefox (on 5.4-Stable, Xorg 6.8.2 and KDE
> > 3.4.2) to play the following media :
> > - Flash
> > - Quicktime
> > - Windows Media
> > Any clue ?
> > Thanks all,
> > Edward
> >
>
> Try installing www/plugger and also www/linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 and
> www/linuxpluginwrapper.
> Don't forget to read the port message for each port when you install them and
> do what they say.!
>
> Configuring the flash plugin has been discussed in the last week on this list
> if you get stuck.
>
> --
> Ian
> gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
>
>
>

Consider www/plugger-plugins-hubbe instead of www/plugger,
you'll have to do less configuration. Also www/mplayer-plugin
often helps.

Still, I haven't figured out how to watch webcasts from some
stupid sites that try to detect whether you have WMP
installed. Has anyone been able to play videos from cnn.com
for example? (Lately, I mean. They've switched from pay-
per-month realmedia to free wmv)


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