It’s installed by default in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and works fabulously!
Totem Movie Player now includes a plug-in for searching and playing You Tube videos without leaving the player and without Flash.
The You Tube plug-in needs to be activated before you can use it. In Totem’s Edit menu, select Plug-ins to open the Configure Plug-ins dialog and click & tick the You Tube plug-in to enable and then close the dialog.
The You Tube browser runs in Totem’s sidebar.
If the sidebar isn’t open, enable it by selecting View->
Sidebar.
Click the sidebar’s drop-down box to select the You Tube view.
It takes a minute for the plug-in to load search results.
Totem will not play You Tube videos because if you do not have the appropriate plug-ins to handle it.
example :
When using the GStreamer backend, you can install multiple plug-in packages.
- gst-plugins-base
the basic and essential plug-ins for GStreamer - gst-plugins-good
the plug-ins for most Open formats - gst-plugins-ugly
good-quality plug-ins that might pose distribution problems, needed for DVD playback - gst-plugins-bad
a set of plug-ins that need more work, needed for YouTube videos - gst-ffmpeg
FFmpeg-based plug-in, contains all the basic decoders for popular codecs, such as DivX and WMV
After installing the appropriate plug-in you can enjoy playing You Tube Videos in your desktop.
Note:
As a advice from boe,You can download youtubeh264.tar.gz and install this plugin to watch youtube clips in h264 quality!
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Hi
I am new to Linux world, i just install Linux Mint 6, every thing is perfect but i m unable to play utube vedios in Totem. U advised to download and install youtubeh264.tar.gz. i downloaded the tar file but HOW CAN I INSTALL THAT H@^$ PLUGIN ??
Looking for Positive responce
Regards
Umair
NWFP,
Pakistan
You need to extract youtubeh264.tar.gz and copy the ‘youtubeh264′ to your totem plugins directory (usually it is /usr/lib/totem/plugins).
then
Click Applications > Sound & Video and select Movie Player (to play Totem Movie Player)
Then enable youtubeh264 .
Click on Edit > Plugins (in Totem Movie Player)
place a check in the box labeled ‘youtubeh264‘ .
Click Close to save changes.
that’s it.
Dear Verman,
Hi Again ,
First of all thnks for ur quick response and 2nd thing is that
manage to extract and place h264 plugin to a plugins directory is mentioned by you, Now there is option available in Edit then Plugins menu. I activate the plugin h264. Its is now activated in side panel. The searching option is working but i m still not able to play youtube videos, when i click on a search movie clip then error comes that ” TOTEM COULD NOT PLAY http://www.youtube.com/v/8pl_bwT3QV0&fmt=18‘. THERE IS NO PLUGIN TO HANDLE THIS MOVIE” .
Youtubes videos are run nicely in Fire Fox but i dont know wats wrong in Totem.
What should i do now ?
Please help me.
Thank you in advance.
I am unable to understand your problem.
Try posting your query in http://ubuntuforums.org/
Have a Nice Day !!!
regards,
Verman
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