I just got firefox to show hockey highlights from NHL.com from linux (Ubuntu Edgy) using the mplayer plugin. I was getting a blank white box where the video was supposed to be. In /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, I moved anything player-related (libtotem*, gxineplugin.so) into a disabled folder and restarted firefox. Then the mplayer plugin loaded but no video. I downloaded the codecs from mplayer and extracted them to /usr/lib/win32. Restart firefox again and now I can see video. Looks like it’s cycling through some URLs until I go into fullscreen or back but it’s basically working so I’m happy!

Now to figure out who to draft in our PDI playoff hockey pool…

Posted by bruce as computing, vitality at 11:28 PM UTC

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