mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:41 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> 2008/5/23 Andre Costa <blueser at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been happily using mplayerplug-in to watch movie trailers on
> > http://www.apple.com/trailers for quite some time, but lately I've
> > been denied access to some movies with a "get latest quicktime"
> > message (other movies still play as they used to).
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I've not followed this thread that closely, but I thought I'd let you
> know that I can view all the media on apple's site with
> totem-mozplugin and the xine backend for totem.
> 
> Do:
> ------------
> yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad streamer-plugins-bad-extra
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine totem-mozplugin
> 
> totem-backend -b xine
> 
> yum remove mplayerplug-in (gecko-mediaplayer)
> -----------------
> and you should find that things work :)

It didn't. I installed and removed as suggested, restarted Firefox,
visited a trailer page and clicked on the URL, and absolutely nothing
happened.

BTW there's no streamer-plugins-bad-extra. It's
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras.

poc