I just spent the better part of today banging around on my daughter's Suse 10.2 system (P3/900MHz, 256MB ram, 20GB hdd ). One of the objectives was to get Firefox to play the various video content at Yahoo video, meaning Reuters news, ABC news, etc. There are flash videos and windows media streams.... you know all that... but mplayerplug-in absolutely refuses to work. I have done all that I know what to do to make it work and it keeps sticking its tongue out at me and refuses to play. Flash 9 works ok. I got an error trying to view a Real video that Firefox was missing the real plugin 10.5. This after installing the latest from Real's website, v10.2 ( I believe) as well as the opensource Helix player and plugin. The links in the ~/firefox/plugins directory are extensive and include everything but the kitchen sink.
I have an almost identical system here that I had put Fedora Core 6 on and it works flawlessly. Both systems have identical video cards (nvidia pci mx-400). The only thing that I can come up with is that the two systems look in different spots for their Firefox plugin info. My next step is to take the FC-6 system over there and set it up next to the Suse box and do an extensive "stare and compare" and maybe get a handle on why Suse is being so damned contrary. If any of you know, please let me know before I load everything up in the truck. Thanks, Fred ps - the mx-400 card fixed her Google Earth rendering problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
