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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 ?

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.

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?

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.

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

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 ?

rc10b wrote:So, how would I know that I needed that particular package ?

THAT is quite a good question ...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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++