Scott Robbins wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:05:34PM -0600, eculp_at_bafirst.com wrote: > >> Quoting eculp_at_bafirst.com: >> >> >>> Quoting Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com>: >>> >>> >>> Using Scott's suggestion, I installed linux-firefox and low and behold, flash >>> didn't work but there was an opportunity for windows like technology that >>> asked if I wanted to download and install the plugin, so at this point, I said >>> yes and it immediately downloaded and installed the plugin and flash begin to >>> work. Now I have to see about linking in my mplayer plugin and look at pdf >>> although I have an idea they may not work. Thanks, Scott, >>> >> Unfortunately, I've yet to be successful with mplayer and linux-firefox. Has >> anyone been successful playing embedded video in linux-firefox? >> > > Heh, hate to say it, but for that I use native firefox. That Just > Works(TM). I installed the mplayer plugin and it works with most audio > and video formats in native firefox. > > I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but disk space isn't such an > issue for me that it's worth the research to use something that I only > need on occasion. > > Strange - I have native firefox, with flash and acrobat reader 7, all working nice in 6-STABLE. I did have to apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch though to make flash happy. Linux-firefox however is more stable than native wrt flash. I find the linux-firefox looks different, and the fonts are somewhat different in a strange kind of way, but not that noticeable. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Mar 13 2006 - 03:05:52 UTC
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