I recently tried viewing a metavid video[1] but instead of showing a
video, my browser displayed the text "[generic_missing_plugin]" where
the video should have been. This appears to happen with all metavid
videos (I see a lot of "[generic_missing_plugin]" when I visit
http://metavid-mike.blogspot.com/).
I am using Firefox 3.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.10. I do not have any Flash
plugins installed, nor do I have the VLC plugin installed. However, I
do have the Totem plugins installed for a wide variety of media
formats. According to my Applications list in Preferences, "Totem Web
Browser Plugin" is associated with "Ogg Audio", "Ogg Video", and "Ogg
multimedia file". I am able to play Theora/Vorbis files embedded via
<object> without any problems through Totem.
Is my setup supported? If not, are there plans to support it? It
would be nice to see mv_embed support arbitrary video plugins that
claim to play Ogg media.
I am really looking forward to a tool like mv_embed becoming
widely-adopted. It would be a huge step toward getting us out of
today's online video mess.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Denver
http://ossguy.com/
1. http://metavid.org/wiki/Stream:Senate_proceeding_09-19-07/4:04:57/4:05:30
