Binary package hint: mozilla-mplayer
Mozilla-mplayer-3.17(mplayerplug-in) will not play any embedded videos using mozilla browser(not firefox). Yet, the same embedded videos play using firefox and swiftfox. I'm using Kubuntu Dapper-6.0.6-1 fully updated. The exact error message is upon clicking a blue-green icon in the middle of the mplayerplug-in player screen: "Title: Default Plugin-This page contains information of a type(application/x-mplayer2) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in." If another video type is attempted, the message is the same only the info in parenthesis changes to fit the video type attempting to play. This issue dates back to Debian-Sid and has been persistent. I think the issue began when Debian began supporting firefox(at the expense of mozilla browser) and lies in Ari Pollak's hands.
This issues has ben posted(several times) on Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, mplayer, mplayerplug-in-develop user lists and in mozillaxine forum with no solution forthcoming .
Ubuntu/Kubuntu should consider fixing this issue so that users of the so-called userfriendly distro may use the browser of their choice without problems.
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A fix has been released - 3.17 is an old version.