[NBLUG/talk] Totem issues

[Eric T. Landerville]

William,
I am running Breezy Badger, fully updated and with the restricted codecs 
installed. on my laptop and just tried the website you mention below.  I 
get the embedded video, at least I think I do, it's just a spinning saw 
blade(?), right?  But when I click the video link it closes out my 
firefox.  This kind of sucks as I was in the middle of the gentoo 
install document and had about 5 other pages open for research on it 
(gentoo).  Oh, well all in the name of help.  So I started up firefox 
via a terminal and here is the out put for your edification.  By the way 
I have been using Breezy with firefox and totem pretty much since Breezy 
came out and this is the first web site that this has happened to, even 
'.wmv' files work fine after all of the codecs are installed.  Perhaps a 
bug should be submitted, but to who? Ubuntu? Totem? Firefox?  Any way, 
maybe just use mozilla-mplayer as Kyle suggests.

NP_Initialize
totem_plugin_new_instance
Init scriptable instance
mode 1
argv[0] src nightmare_anim.mov
argv[1] bgcolor 000000
argv[2] loop true
argv[3] controller false
argv[4] href index.html
argv[5] height 379
argv[6] width 375
plugin_get_value 14
plugin_set_window
about to fork
Launching: /usr/lib/totem/totem-mozilla-viewer --xid 46138740 --width 
375 --height 379 --url http://www.robotcombat.com/nightmare_anim.mov 
--href http://www.robotcombat.com/index.html --nocontrols fd://0
waiting for signal org.totem_29669.MozillaPluginService
Received notification for :1.5
Received notification for :1.5
Received notification for org.totem_29669.MozillaPluginService
Received notification for org.totem_29669.MozillaPluginService
Done forking, new proxy=0x8765508
leaving plugin_set_window
plugin_set_window
existing window
resize
leaving plugin_set_window
CMD line: /usr/lib/totem/totem-mozilla-viewer --xid 46138740 --width 375 
--height 379 --url http://www.robotcombat.com/nightmare_anim.mov --href 
http://www.robotcombat.com/index.html --nocontrols fd://0
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** Message: ret -1
plugin_destroy_stream
** Message: totem_embedded_open 'fd://0'
plugin_destroy
** Message: stop
Die scriptable instance
Segmentation fault

Eric


William Tracy wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I got a friend (who has no previous Linux experience) to install
>Ubuntu on an old laptop. Now he wants to look at some movies that are
>embedded in web pages.
>
>The page he showed me specifically is http://www.robotcombat.com/ .
>Click on the "Team Nightmare" button on the left; the next page
>contains an embedded movie that Totem tries to load, but then cannot
>find the codec for. Unfortunately, Totem isn't helpful about what that
>codec *is*. A peek at the HTML source suggests that it's a Quicktime
>movie (.mov extension).
>
>He then clicks on the "Video" link on the left menu, and Firefox
>closes without even an error message.
>
>So, right now, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to at least coax any
>more useful information out of Totem or Firefox (right now I'm
>thinking I should have tried launching Firefox from the console to see
>if I would get any more output there). I'd also be interested in
>hearing about other movie players I should try installing that might
>work better.
>
>Ideas? Any more specific information I need to get next time I visit? :-)
>
>William
>(Who hates movies embedded in web pages...)
>
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