Fwd: media plugins and javascript

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 08:41, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > I'm writing directly to you since there doesn't seem to be much
> > information on using such players on konqueror. I've realized that
> > using an object tag with the correct mime type gets quicktime files to
> > play. However, I haven't been able to get much out of the object to
> > get the video's duration and current position. I figured that it may
> > be like in java applets where I just have to know the name of the
> > method to call in order to get a particular property.
>
> Konqueror's html part supports this. It all depends if the installed
> media player plugin supports this too.
> I happen to maintain a media player plugin (kmplayer) that does support
> many of the javascript bindings that MS MediaPlayer and RealPlay plugin
> support (however much of these are just dummies, and stays that way until
> I found a usage for it).
> However this won't help you, because most of the distribution ship the
> kaffeine media player that also has a plugin for konqueror. You might
> want to contact the kaffeine developers for this.

   Which crashes like crazy....  I wish they would stop shipping that thing.

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George Staikos
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