I've done a bit of research and I've realized, the problem's not system- wide. I can play streaming .wmv's in Firefox using the mplayer-plugin (screenshot of the Firefox window in action attached). The problem is with the Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) with the file: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so. However, Chromium doesn't seem to be able to use the mplayer-plugin.
here are 2 URL's, opening them in Chromium gives a player window that won't start playing and stays black: http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/Windows%207/Main/5/5/55191799-c851-4ca4-8d17-ed9bd33b2652/55191799-c851-4ca4-8d17-ed9bd33b2652.wmv I can open this one at least with Totem and it plays correctly. http://www.ta3.com/sk/relacie/15_svet-technologii/9333_svet-technologii-z-22-maja Opening this one with Totem gives this message: An error occurred Location not found. Reinstalling the totem-mozilla package doesn't help. Here's how the whole problem started: I added the Chromium daily-build PPA to the software sources on 22. May 2010 and run an update. From then I couldn't play the streaming .wmv's. However, it may be just a coincidence... Here's some terminal output, maybe helpful: zs...@zsolt-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep chromium- ii chromium-browser 6.0.416.0~svn20100526r48240-0ubuntu1~ucd1~lucid Chromium browser ii chromium-browser-inspector 6.0.416.0~svn20100526r48240-0ubuntu1~ucd1~lucid page inspector for the chromium-browser ii chromium-browser-l10n 6.0.416.0~svn20100526r48240-0ubuntu1~ucd1~lucid chromium-browser language packages ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 0.5+svn20100522r47988+47943+48186-0ubuntu1~ucd1~lucid Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree 0.5+svn20100522r47988+47943+48186-0ubuntu1~ucd1~lucid dummy upgrade package zs...@zsolt-laptop:~$ Thanks... ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49235198/Screenshot.png -- There's all the time some problem streaming wmv videos in browsers in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584057 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
