Playing quicktime movies on Firefox

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> writes:

    Frank> On 26/07/09 16:33, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >>>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Murphy<frankly3d at gmail.com> writes:
    >> 
    Frank> On 26/07/09 15:53, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>> In case it's a dektop specific problem, are you KDE, Gnome
    >> >>> etc.?
    >> >>
    >> >> GNOME
    >> 
    >> 
    Frank> Try this on a terminal: firefox http://tinyurl.com/knfqkt
    Frank> (your link shortened)
    >> 
    Frank> And capture all the output, up to and including pressing
    Frank> play.
    >> 
    Frank> and stick it in a paste bin
    >> 
    Frank> http://fpaste.org/
    >> 
    >> There isn't anything to press to make it play.  But this is
    >> what I got:
    >> 
    >> http://fpaste.org/paste/19911

    Frank> Having a quick look at the paste.  It seems VLC is trying
    Frank> to capture the movie.  Installed from source?

    Frank> Maybe remove VLC, and see what happens.

Actually just removing the VLC plugin was sufficient.
There's no controls like the webpage mentions, but neither is there in
the stand-alone totem. This is quite sufficient for my needs.

Thanks for your persistence Franck.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire