Firefox plugins for audio files

[DavidMcCann]

I've just come from a website that had mpeg and x-aiff audio files, neither of which Firefox would play. I got the "missing plugins" banner, but when I clicked on install I was told nothing suitable was available.

I was able to play the files, by downloading with Download Helper and playing in Rhythmbox, but surely there should be some plugin? I've tried a yum search, but nothing obvious showed up, nor was Google helpful.

[newiLuvatar]

I installed the package gecko-mediaplayer, which is an mplayer plugin for firefox. with this plugin, you can also stream non-flash videos like e.g. divx...

[DavidMcCann]

Well, I've installed gecko-mediaplayer and I don't get the missing-plugins banner any more. On the other hand, the links on that website no longer show, so I can't even see to download the files now

[newiLuvatar]

hmm, that's weird... perhaps the plugin doesn't get initialised correctly.
you could try to start firefox from terminal, and see if there are any error messages, or just check .xsession-errors

[DavidMcCann]

I've just found that another site I used successfully before gecko-media player uses aiff files, so the problem is obviously this new website's coding, not Firefox.

[newiLuvatar]

glad to hear that...