Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
(Please trim your quoting...) On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:49:46PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a > GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. Run it in X. You'll get a video window. Scroll up and down on y

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Leo Spalteholz wrote: hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. leo edit /etc/mplayer.conf so that it contains gui=yes[and get rid of gui=no if it exists] or add gui=yes to ~/.mplayer/config in whic

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 09:20 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > > >>>you can add > > >>> > > >>>deb

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > >>>you can add > >>> > >>>deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > >>> > >>>to /etc/apt/sources

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > but apt-get install mplayer returns > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package mplayer > > any ideas? mplayer is like the kernel-image packages: You need to pick an arch. -- .'

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:31:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > - Not that mplayer could handle all .rm's and work as a browser plugin > anyway. Look upthread for my post containing the sources.list lines. Pick the mplayer closest describing your system and w32codecs and there won't be a movie f

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:38:14PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > But of course mplayer isn't in Debian currently either so I don't see > how you can point to that as a solution... While not in debian, there are apt-get sources available for it. deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main deb http://m

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: you can add deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main to /etc/apt/sources.list and do # apt-get install mplayer I've never gotten this to work.. In my

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > > you can add > > > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > > > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > and do > > > > # apt-get install mplayer > > I've never gotten this to work

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread vasco figueiredo
Leo Spalteholz wrote: On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: sean finney wrote: i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution illegal. i'm

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian > > distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or > > proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution > > illegal. i'm not sure

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread vasco figueiredo
sean finney wrote: i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution illegal. i'm not sure if this is even true anymore (i hear it's now completely GPL too), but

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:50:37 -0500 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:31:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > Earlier in this thread I wanted to reply that realplayer is > > available just to find out that it isn't and now mplayer is > > gone,too? What is

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread sean finney
hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:31:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > Earlier in this thread I wanted to reply that realplayer is available > just to find out that it isn't and now mplayer is gone,too? What is > going on there? i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian distro. i

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:38:14 -0500 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:23:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > > > >>Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java > >>debs from blackdown. > > > > > > My understanding is that

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:23:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from blackdown. My understanding is that realplayer may be removed from future Debians if the zlib dependancy isn't fixed. But that's why ther

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:23:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from > blackdown. My understanding is that realplayer may be removed from future Debians if the zlib dependancy isn't fixed. But that's why there's mplayer. -- .

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > > recently removed as a result. > > So there's a need for a new one. As ever, it'll happen as soon as a developer is interested. -- Col

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
> > > Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from > > > blackdown. > > > > I can't find RealPlayer... > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > recently removed as a result. So there's a need for a new one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:23, Tom Badran wrote: > > On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > > > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > > > Is thi

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:23, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > > Is this allowed ? > > > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in De

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > Is this allowed ? > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could > apt-get the plugins without violating th

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Perfect idea, Antoine! I second it. Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins (Flash+Java+Real Player...). Is this allowed ? I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could apt-get the plugins without violating the dis

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
> The problem with Java, Flash and Acrobat is that they're non-Free. > Debian isn't allowed to distribute them. There are other solutions (you > can get a Java plugin from blackdown.org, f'r instance), not until there > are Free versions, it can't be integrated into Debian. If you want it > to wo

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:53:02AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like his > microsoft counterpart when encountering flash, java, etc. 'enhanced' > web pages. These cause mozilla 0.99 to ask me to download some > 'plug-ins' in some wacky f

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread sean finney
heya, i just got this stuff working last night, actually. this is what i did, but note that it uses stuff from non-free. the flashplayer that i find the most reliable is the one from macromedia themselves. there's a package in non-free that installs it: flashplugin, but there's a caveat that it

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread pierre
On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:53, Dan Jacobson wrote: solution update mozilla to version 1.1 dev plus on there web site there a link to plug-in with all the extra,or use opera for linux I think the version is now 6.1 Pierre > Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like h