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Bug 337414 - pluginNameString should changing according to the video type?
pluginNameString should changing according to the video type?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Browser plugin (obsolete)
1.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-05 17:43 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2007-03-05 16:20 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-04-05 17:43:32 UTC 
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/38169

"1. Install totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin
2. Go to http://multimedia.repubblica.it/

There should be a video player opening in the top left of the screen. It works ok with mozilla-mplayer (although more codecs are needed to play the wmv video streams), and with Microsoft Windows Media Player.

I don't know if gstreamer can handle the wmv streams, but the plugin should at least plug in and try on this website.
..."

From an IRC discussion with chpe:

"<chpe> some web sites check for plugins by name
<chpe> and expect "Windows Media PLayer" or "QuickTime" etc, so it doesn't work with totem
...
<seb128> according to the submitter it works with mplayer, I doubt website list mplayer as known player :)
...
<chpe> if you change the plugin
<chpe>  *((char **)value) = "Totem Mozilla Plugin";
<chpe> to "Windows Media Player (Totem; compatible)" or sth like that
....
<chpe> but then the JS expects the windows media player JS objects, which totem doesn't implement... will probably warn on JS console and/or not work :)"


The mplayer plugin code has:

"    if (variable == NPPVpluginNameString) {
#ifdef STD
	*((const char **) value) = "mplayerplug-in " PACKAGE_VERSION;
#endif
#ifdef WMP
	*((const char **) value) = "Windows Media Player Plugin";
#endif

#ifdef QT
	*((const char **) value) = "QuickTime Plug-in 6.0";
#endif
..."

Changing the value to "Windows Media Player (Totem; compatible)" as suggested to try make the plugin used, maybe totem should special case that and try updating the pluginNameString used for it?
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-04-12 14:17:47 UTC 
The Javascript at http://scripts.kataweb.it/tz/player.js contains:
	if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins.length){
	    for (x=0; x<navigator.plugins.length; x++){
		if (navigator.plugins[x].name.indexOf('Windows Media') != -1){
		    media_player = true;

The problem with the MPlayer plugin code is that the plugin can only associate itself with one plugin name. Would need to split the plugin into multiple plugins to be able to support this, which would suck.

The best would be to bug republicca to update its scripts to check for mime-types as well:
if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes.length)
{
	x = navigator.mimeTypes['video/x-ms-asf-plugin'];
	if (x && x.enabledPlugin)
		media_player = true;
}
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-03-05 16:12:33 UTC 
Actually, the Totem plugin now does that.