Multimedia in Ubuntu
Posted on 2005-07-18 at 08:02
To fix many of the problems I had with Ubuntu's multimedia, I did the following:
- Install totem-xine. This will uninstall totem-gstreamer. Fine by me. The out of sync AV sucks. Xine is a better back end for now.
- Install mozplugger. This will let me set up totem to handle embedded multimedia content.
- Add "stream noisy ignore_errors: totem "$file" </dev/null" in /etc/mozpluggerrc everywhere that the MPlayer command is currently referenced. This means changing all the defined variables at the top.
- delete ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat
- Restart firefox.
- In Firefox, go to "about:config" to see the mozplugger plugin shown.
- Go to http://www.movie-list.com and watch a trailer to test the setup. It worked for me! :)
- Sit back and enjoy your new system hotness!