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[Arild Lindseth <arild.lindseth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

System: iBook G4 512RAM, 1.42GHz CPU
Lubuntu 12.04
Gnome mplayer and Gecko media player 1.0.6 packages from Quantal
Totem movie player 3.0.1 and GStreamer 0.10.36.
Firefox 15.


There is trouble with broken browser plugin packages for powerpc like 
Gnash, gnome mplayer, gecko, totem, and it is a bit difficult to 
identify exactly where the problem lies. Gnome mplayer and Gecko does 
not stream at all in browser on lubuntu 12.04. I have built the 1.0.6 
packages from Quantal on 12.04 Precise and they are working fine but 
with the same issues as the 1.0.5 packages. Except for Gnome mplayer and 
Gecko 1.0.6 packages I have only installed packages through Synaptic 
Package Manager. I have been wroking on this to find a way to make 
browser embedded streams play on powerpc. An interesting discovery have 
been gnome mplayer 1.0.6 are streaming the commercial videos on Apples 
home pages all fine, directly in Firefox. I`m not sure why this site 
works, but it does.
I have been trying different media players and browser plugins, among 
them Totem with adjoining packages. A very interesting find has been the 
local TV channel streams with gnome mplayer opened through the black 
Totem window. There is a double finger click feature in the black Toten 
window allowing to open the video or live TV in gnome mplayer (which 
opens in a separate windows). For some odd reason this works on the 
iBook. I have a suspicion the mplayer-gecko mozilla plugin for ppc is 
broken, and when it is opened trough Totem, the Totem mozilla plugin 
takes over and works? Totem player in its` self however does not work.
Several of the browser plugins for Gnash, Totem, Mplayer are broken for 
ppc, but they are soooo close to working!
I`m in Norway, and the national TV channel might have restrictions 
abroad but this is the site that some how  stream in gnome mplayer "on 
top" of Totem: http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/direkte/nrk1/ I am using the 
windows media player setting on the site (it allows for either 
silverlight or windows media player settings.
To sum it all up: Somehow Gnome mplayer streams opened "on top" of Totem.

Any ideas on why this is? I hope it might be usefull for the powerpc 
beta testing.

Regards