Flash videos in Fedora 9 via swfdec or proprietary plugin?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 09:45:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 00:35 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 12:24 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 03:38 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Here is my report:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > http://www.blip.tv - frontpage video works but other videos I click I
> > > see totem plugin loading instead of swfdec
> > <snip>
> > > http://www.videojug.com - totem plugin starts instead of swfdec ?!?
> >
> > This means that the web page asked for a mime-type handled by Totem,
> > rather than to be handled by whatever Flash plugin you're using.
> >
> > File bugs if you think that's shouldn't be the case, along with a full
> > URL. All the videos I tried on those sites are handled correctly by the
> > Flash plugin, and not by Totem.
> 
> This seams random. I see the same video next time I start firefox 3
> beta that it loads swfdec and not totem... strange.
> Should I file bugs for firefox3 or totem?

Include the URL and the source of the page and file bugs against
Firefox. We'll see pretty quickly whether it's showing the right plugin.

Cheers




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