w32-codec plugin needed ?

[rc10b]

I'm trying to play a webcam stream in Firefox but get the message that the "Windows Media Video 9 decoder plugin" is required. A Google search suggested: "You're looking for the w32-codec package available thru the Easy URPMI PLF sites." but this was back in 2006 and I can't see anything similar in the repositories, including Non-Free and Tainted.

Anyone know if this plugin is available for Mageia yet ?

[eric71]

Mageia comes with Totem and the totem-mozilla browser plugin by default. Totem is gstreamer based, so to get the extra codecs you might need for this to play just about anything, install gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly.

[eric71]

On an off-topic, but related note - It bothers me having a Gnome app as the default video player in a KDE-centric distro. I realize it is the best option in that it does DVD menus, can play just about anything, has a working browser plugin, etc. Maybe I'm still worried about loading gnome libraries on top of the KDE ones from a time when I didn't have them memory to handle that. VLC is nice, but its browser plugin doesn't work. Gnome-mplayer (gtk dependanceies, but not Gnome, despite the name) doesn't handle DVD menus. Kaffeine is my preferred player for KDE, but doesn't have a browser plugin (there is one available in some distros, but it just opens Kaffeine externally, not embedded). I can definitely see why Totem was chosen, but is there any KDE or Qt based solution on the horizon that can cover all these bases?

[rc10b]

Thanks for your suggestion. I already had ugly installed, so I installed bad as well but I still get the same error: "The playback of this movie requires a Windows Media Video 9 decoder plugin which is not installed."
I don't know if it's relevant but I'm using Mageia 64-bit.

[Anssi]

You need gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg for Windows Media Video 9. No win32-codecs is needed.

[rc10b]

Thanks Anssi, I think that has worked. The live stream appears to be down at the moment, typical , but I don't get the error any more.

So, how would I know that I needed that particular package ?

[doktor5000]

So, how would I know that I needed that particular package ?

THAT is quite a good question ...

[isadora]

Right then it is good to know so many knowledgeable people are around right here.

And sure, it would be even more convenient having a message right away, that shows what and how to install.

[rc10b]

In case anyone is interested I have determined, with some help from eric71 and Anssi, that in order to get this particular webcam stream to work I need all the following packages installed:

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gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
totem-mozilla
gstreamer0.10-mms
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg


For each package I also installed the dependencies that are identified.

For experimental purposes I'm running from the Mageia1 KDE LiveCD and the only package that was already installed was

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gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Steve

[Anssi]

An automatic codec installation based on PackageKit or Codeina would solve the issue of not knowing what one needs. Unfortunately that hasn't yet been implemented in Mageia, I believe.

[Sfiet_Konstantin]

Please ... forget codeina
I never make it work ....

[Anssi]

I know the Codeina implementation in MDV wasn't very good. If it can't be made to work better, I'm not planning to choose that

[Sfiet_Konstantin]

But the problem with packagekit is that urpm backend is not very very good ...
I really really want to help improve that but I no nothing about perl Only C++