Online videos (mpeg and some wmv files) were not playing in Firefox under Ubuntu Edgy in my laptop. I checked and I had mplayer for Firefox installed. I also had installed totem for Firefox and VLC media player plugin for Firefox. I found that out when I entered about:plugins in Firefox. I then uninstalled the VLC plugins and then uninstalled the totem plugin from the terminal using the following command:
sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla (it used to be gstreamer in Dapper, I think).
I then reinstalled mplayer plugin for Mozilla and it worked. If you don’t want to uninstall totem plugin, you can try this in a terminal:
sudo -s (to login as root)
cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
mkdir oldtotemfiles
mv libtotem* oldtotemfiles (move to totem plugins)
apt-get install –reinstall mozilla-mplayer
exit
exit
This should get mplayer to work.
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Problem pwnd. Many thanks.
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Thanks Arun, this was really starting to do my nut in!
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Thanks Arun. I had the exact same problem.