the plugin soes not work if the page requests "Windows Media" plugin

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Hello, mozilla-mplayer plugins does best effort to handle buggy pages which request a spicified plugin name to work. in about:plugins we can see that it adds support for:

QuickTime Plug-in 6.0
RealPlayer 9
Windows Media Player Plugin
mplayerplug-in 3.17

Instead the totem plugin only adds a name:
Totem Mozilla Plugin

this is bad for some web pages like this:
http://multimedia.repubblica.it/home/219614
which works using mozilla-mplayer.

Is it possible to add these names to totem plugin?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Totem does it right. We shouldn't have to make fixes for buggy pages. The pages themselves should be fixed.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

well, I'm sure totem does it right, but you shouldn't prevent users
from viewing these webpage content.
The web is full of these buggy pages and I think that noone would ever
fix it, since it works in windows.

Rejecting this (I know it's not a bug) is in my opinion a bit drastic
decision that will ilfluence lots of users that won't choose linux
because of they can't view these pages!

Moreover I think it's very simple to add that words in the plugin, and
it shouldn't cause any problems to other applications.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That has been rejected by upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337414

Not, it's not simple, read the upstream bug. Totem will not call itself "Window Media Player" because some website thinks that's the only player existing around and having different names is not something easy as explained by upstream. If you want to argue better to do upstream because we are not likely to rewrite the plugin for that against upstream

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Thank you Sebastian, I'll have a look at the upstream bug!
I just thought it was a simple thing adding new names to the plugin, I'm sorry!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no problem!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream made the required changes for that, this upload fixes the issue:

 totem (1.5.91-1ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Sync with Debian
   * New upstream version:
     * Numerous Browser Plugin enhancements:
       - Playlist support
       - Split the plugin in 4 different plugins, to allow
         name-based detection to work, and different Javascript interfaces
         to be used (Real Player/Helix, Windows Media Player and Quicktime
         compatible, and basic Totem) (Ubuntu: #38169, #42716, #49376, #51167)
       - Handle repeat and autostart parameters
       - Make sure the plugin is available for all Mozilla-based browsers
       - Make scrolling on the volume widget work as it should
     * New icon
     * Use HAL to determine the disc type
     * Save and restore which sidebar was showing, and whether Totem was
       maximised
     * Fix the window title not changing when playing files with broken names
     * Fix Ctrl+Q not working in fullscreen
     * More logo mode fixes (xine-lib)
     * Fix aspect ratio of visuals (xine-lib)
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on liblaunchpad-integration-dev, firefox-dev
     - Depends from totem on totem-gstreamer before totem-xine
     - don't Build-Depends on libxul-dev, xulrunner
     - totem-mozilla Replaces, Provides, Conflicts with
       totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin, totem-xine-firefox-plugin
     - use Suggests instead of Recommends for gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly,
       gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg since those packages come from universe
   * debian/patches/02_lpi.dpatch:
     - launchpad-integration
   * debian/patches/03_autoconf.dpatch:
     - configure update
   * debian/patches/04_desktop_gettext_domain.dpatch:
     - Add gettext domain to .desktop file to get language pack support.
   * debian/patches/05_auto_resize.dpatch:
     - use auto resize as default behaviour (Ubuntu: #35055)
   * debian/rules:
     - build with firefox instead of xulrunner
     - use dh_iconcache