chromium browser can not load plugin

[TasosCh]

Ubuntu 12.10
Chromium 22.0.1229.94 Ubuntu 12.10 (161065)
Gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.6-1ubuntu2

When attempting to play media files, chromium reports that can not load plugin (quicktime or windows media player).
Example:1) http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/intonarumori/video/1/
                 2) Local .mov videos in an android device

Firefox plays these videos without a problem (using the same gecko-mediaplayer)

Update
Chrome browser (binary package google-chrome-stable_current_i386 22.0.1229.94 r 161065) has the same behaviour.

Update 2
It seems that the bug is in gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.6-1ubuntu2. I installed 1.0.4-2ubuntu1 and the problem disappeared.

Update 3 :D
Although gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.4-2 works in most cases, gnome-mplayer fails to play some big .mov files. My solution so far is to roll back in gnome-mplayer 1.05-1 from precise. This combination works so far in all cases I tested it in.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[bowser (bwbernard-wong1)]

Actually it doesn't work in Firefox either. I will file a separate bug against it. On Firefox gecko-mediaplayer does start to load but then will get stuck at 19% whereas the totem plugin works fine on these stream.

Downgrade to 1.04 (the Precise version) it still doesn't work but the behaviour is consistent in Chrome and Firefox, gecko-mediaplayer loads but then soon stuck.

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Do you get the same error message as in #870115?

[dino99 (9d9)]

Get the same issue with Saucy stock installation, when trying to watch some tv channels on youweb.tv/fr/ for example. The channels which does not use that gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.8 can be seen without problem (gulli & cherie25), but the other channels all failed with "cant load that plugin" even if the permission is done to use it.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Looking for errors output when i try to use gecko-mediaplayer, i get:

[256:256:0826/095312:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init returned false
[256:256:0826/095312:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(253)] Couldn't initialize plug-in

so it seems a wrong rights issue, that needs to be identified. (does not see relationship with that oldish #870115 report)

[dino99 (9d9)]

Issue with chromium is already known and confirmed many times:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=173790

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

> [256:256:0826/095312:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init returned false
> [256:256:0826/095312:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(253)] Couldn't initialize plug-in

This should be fixed in Debian's gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.8-3. Someone just needs to take care of syncing the Debian changes back into the Ubuntu package.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Strangely /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/ folder is empty; so i wonder where chromium picks them up ?

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

From /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gecko-mediaplayer - 1.0.8-4ubuntu1

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gecko-mediaplayer (1.0.8-4ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing, remaining ubuntu changes:
    - debian/rules: Drop --with-xulrunner-sdk flag, it's empty and cause FTBFS.
    - debian/control: Build depend on libnspr4-dev
    - debian/patches/0002-require-nspr.patch:
      firefox-dev now only provides npapi headers so require nspr to build

gecko-mediaplayer (1.0.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/functable-check.patch: Actually check the correct function
    table. This should now cover all cases correctly.

gecko-mediaplayer (1.0.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/functable-check.patch: Fix function table check. This
    improves the compatibility with browser other than iceweasel and with
    older versions of iceweasel if built against a newer one. (LP: #870115,
    #1069635)

gecko-mediaplayer (1.0.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.
  * debian/install: Don't install obsolete gconf2 scheme.
 -- Jackson Doak <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:26:44 +1000