Well it's OK. Maybe we'll both find an answer in this case from someone who has I usually go to movietickets.com to watch streams because I can see times when they are playing too. The real player stream almost came up but it said cannot support asp... That's I guess because the link to the movie was .asp and then some other stuff...

amarok

http://amarok.kde.org/

It doesn't seem to directly integrate into firefox? My amaroK also locks up when putting 3 things in the playlist. And I love the player. The interface is awesome. It's easy to use... So sad that it freezes on me

Does it still freeze if you switch away from the "arts" engine to the "helix" or "gstreamer" audio engines?

Anywho, more to the point about videos, you can set up mime types in FireFox and so long you have the extensions/plugins listed from the Jem Report, you should be able to stream video using embedded kaffiene. Did you install that plugin?

I installed everything on the Jem Report. How do I set up mime types in firefox? Do you know of a HOW-TO page or can you give me a few detailed instructions? That would really help me out.

As for amaroK... It only freezes aparently when I drag and drop the items in the playlist. If I just add from inside the playlist via the add media button then I can add as many as I want... When you say arts, helix, and gstreamer it's like a foreign language to me. You have to tell me what command to type in to find out what i'm doing. I am running amaroK as it came out of the SuSe installation. And when it comes to media players for Linux I know very little. I know however it's using the xine engine... Maybe there is an update? I did YaST updates but it didn't show up.

Amarok's configuration page(right click in the player, not the playlist and not on the title bar) has options for which audio engine you want to use. Arts is common and I have seen many threads on these forums mentioning little glitches like that with it. Xine and Gstreamer are both better choices. Helix is the real player engine, so if you installed that, you have it too, it is just another option, I prefer not to use it, but that is for personal reasons as I have a great distaste for Real. Try swapping to another engine and seeing if the problem goes away.

Back to the issue, before we really get into mime types...
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-linux.html Here is a good start on plugins, including how tos and details on how they work and what they do and where to get them. mplayer and xine(gzine) and helix can all be added via plugin to give you streaming video in FireFox.
It also has links to FAQs about plugins and the like for FireFox, Mozilla is VERY good at documentation, it is one of the many resons I heavily support their products.

The only engine I see in the amaroK settings window for the engine is Xine... If I click down on the list that's the only one that shows up... I didn't install Helix because I didn't know about it. I also didn't install the other two you mentioned for that same reason. I'm going to try to install helix via installer bin tonight. Or should I get the rpm?

I took a look at that page for plugins. I am going to try and download mplayerplug-in and follow the four instuctions:

Hopefully that will set everything right. Either way, I will let everyone know how it goes tonight when I will have some time.

My XMMS crashed every once in a while if I drag and drop a few files onto it while it's playing...

I fixed it by killing it, sending -9 to remaining processes of xmms, it gave me, cannot open /dev/dsp, and then I just put back the arts pluggin as my output pluggin... and it did it.

I cannot get the plugins to work correctly... They just don't want to show up. In the following folders I have:

/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/
mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-in.xpt

/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/
mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-in.xpt

How can I make it so I see streaming video on the web? I downloaded the mplayerplug-in package from one of the sites given on Jem Report to get those files in those folders but I still can't see streaming videos. I even installed the helix back end for amaroK...

I even tried to plugins package from the mozilla link and still i cannot see streaming video.

In a new browser window type in "about:config" and hit enter. It should pull up a long list of settings and file information. It say anything about video, mplyaer, plugins or mime? If you are unsure exactly what to look for, maybe you want to post all of it so we can take a look?

How can I copy that whole config page and post it here?

for mime all i see is:
helpers.global_mime_types_file default string /etc/mime.types
helpers.private_mime_types_file default string ~/.mime.types

for plugin:
applicaiton.use_ns_plugin_finder default boolean false
java.java_plugin_library_name default string javaplugin_oji
plugin.default_plugin_disabled default boolean true
plugin.expose_full_path default boolean false
plugin.override_internal_types default boolean false
plugin.soname.list user set string /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
security.xpconnect.plugin.unrestricted default boolean true

for video or mplayer there is nothing.

Okay... does anything show up in the settings either? Specifically in the Options > Downloads, hit the "Plug-Ins" button. You should see various media types. Hopefully there will be checkmarks in the enabled tab for all of them.

Otherwise, if youa ren't seeing anything in the about:config or in the plugins section of the options... it isn't installing at all.

RE: videos not working in web pages:
use packman to install mplayer.
(http://packman.iu-bremen.de folder is suse/10.0)
search for "mplay" and that will bring up like 3 things, get all 3. at least the one for mozilla if you've got the others, that's the one you want. plays things just fine for me in webpages.

let me know.

BTW: my xmms and amarok and xine are broken too, and I have xmms-wma installed. won't even play those anymore and it used to.
maybe the uninstall and reinstall from packman is a good idea?

konqueror:
nspluginscan