Missing Plugins On Tagworld.com

Mychal007 · September 18, 2006

Hey gang! I was just wondering (again). In order for me to listen to music or hear my notification alerts on TagWorld.com, it says "Additional Plugins Are Required To Display All The Media On This Page, Install Missing Plugins". How do I do this? I received help a while back when I had the same problem with another site but I forgot what to do. I appreciate your help if there's any available.

iccaros · September 18, 2006

if you are using firefox, a tag at the top of the page, if you click that you will get a option to install the plug in, but it all depends what plug in it is asking for?

Mychal007 · September 19, 2006

Yes iccaros, I'm using Firefox. However, when I click on the download tab this box pops up and says "Plugin Finder Service" Unknown Plugin. So I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

shanenin · September 19, 2006

you seem to be doing eveything correctly. That sight uses flash, so I am pretty sure that is the plugin you need. What version of linux are you running?

shanenin · September 20, 2006

you mentioned in your PM that you use ubuntu. I would reccomend automatix, it will install most of your commonly used plugins and other goodies. Below is a link, if you have questions about installation, post them here, I or someone else will be able to walk you thru it :-)

http://www.getautomatix.com/index.php?opti...ge&Itemid=1

this below seems like the easiest way to install, just enter these three commands into a terminal, one after another

wget http://www.getautomatix.com/files/automatix-installer
chmod +x automatix-installer
./automatix-installer

then after it has installed, you can run the program by typing the following command into the terminal

automatix

you may have to type in your password several times as the script is run. It gives you the choice to install all kinds of cool stuff: dvd support, audio and video codecs, flash support, java support, mplayer and ff support(plays video clips from websites), plus many other cool programs.

edit added later//

I just ran it on my ubunutu virtual machine, it worked really smoothe. I am impressed.

Edited September 20, 2006 by shanenin

Mychal007 · September 20, 2006

I was able to find the Automatix program thru my applications with no problem. However, it wasn't clear as to which plugins to check off on the list. I chose Multimedia codecs (as a wild guess) but now when I go to my TagWorld.com site there's that annoying yellow bar across the top that still says "Additional Plugins Are Required To Display All The Media On This Page, Install Missing Plugins" and I'd never seen that on my page before until tonight when I unpackaged that Mulitmedia codecs thingie and it's making the page run a little slower. I might've checked off the wrong plugin or I did't choose enough. Could some one please tell me what to do here? Thx.

shanenin · September 20, 2006

I would reccomend checking the folowing items, you will probably use most of them:

AUD-DVD codecs

Flash Player (this one is needed for tagworld)

Mplayer and FF plugin

Media Players

Multimedia Codecs

SUN JAVAv 1.5JRE

nVidia Driver (choose this only if you have an nvidia video card installled)

Mychal007 · September 20, 2006

I just did everything you advised me to do and while watching the unpackaging of the programs in the Auto Script Box everything seems to be going ok unil these error messeges pop up in the Automatix download box.

RealPlayer

Audio And DVD codecs

Sun Java JRE 1.5

"Could NOT be downloaded please try again later". Later came around and I tried it again but still got the same thing. Then at the end of the installation it says "All selected installation and configuration complete" How could it be complete if the three main components could not be downloaded? I'm so confused right now it's crazy. :rolleyes:

And that annoying yellow bar across the top that still says "Additional Plugins Are Required To Display All The Media On This Page, Install Missing Plugins" . It's driving me nuts because it's making my page real slow.

Edited September 20, 2006 by Mychal007

shanenin · September 20, 2006

just curious, if you goto this sight, does the flash work, or does it tell you to download flash(or needed plugins)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6...ceid=searchfeed

Mychal007 · September 20, 2006

just curious, if you goto this sight, does the flash work, or does it tell you to download flash(or needed plugins)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6...ceid=searchfeed

Yes the flash works on this site.

shanenin · September 20, 2006

I noticed I needed the following plugin to view some of the media on tagworld

Mplayer and FF plugin

did you install that one?

edit added later//

are you getting the missing plugin message as soon as you goto tagworlds homepage(main)?

Edited September 20, 2006 by shanenin

naraku9333 · September 20, 2006

Try installing mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs.

Mychal007 · September 21, 2006

I noticed I needed the following plugin to view some of the media on tagworld
Mplayer and FF plugin
did you install that one?
edit added later//
are you getting the missing plugin message as soon as you goto tagworlds homepage(main)?

Yes I installed the Mplayer and FF plugin. And yes I'm getting the missing plugin message as soon as I go to TagWorlds homepage. .. Where do I find the mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs and how do I install them because I don't see them on the Automatix screen?

Edited September 21, 2006 by Mychal007

shanenin · September 21, 2006

that is odd, as far as I can tell the tagworld homepage only uses flash. Since you have flash installed, I don't know why it is complaining.

iccaros · September 21, 2006

quick check, did you restart firefox after installing the plugins

naraku9333 · September 21, 2006

. Where do I find the mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs and how do I install them because I don't see them on the Automatix screen?

sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer w32codecs

Mychal007 · September 21, 2006

quick check, did you restart firefox after installing the plugins

Yes I did. and it's still not working correctly.

naraku9333 · September 22, 2006

quick check, did you restart firefox after installing the plugins
Yes I did. and it's still not working correctly.

Can you link to some specific pages? The audio I tried worked fine, but I didn't navigate the site much. I suspect the content you want is written in flash 9 which wont be out for linux until early 2007 (as of now), bu at least it is coming.

Mychal007 · September 22, 2006

. Where do I find the mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs and how do I install them because I don't see them on the Automatix screen?
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer w32codecs

I typed that and I got this error messege.

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://koti.mbnet.fi breezy/ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/koti.mbnet.fi_%7eots_ubuntu_breezy_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://theli.free.fr ./ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/theli.free.fr_packages_breezy_._Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

E: Couldn't find package mozilla-mplayerw32codecs

naraku9333 · September 22, 2006

From that error it could be just a typo, you dont have a space between mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs. Can you post your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list)?

Edited September 22, 2006 by naraku9333

Mychal007 · September 23, 2006

From that error it could be just a typo, you dont have a space between mozilla-mplayer and w32codecs. Can you post your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list)?

In the terminal I typed sudo apt-get install mozilla-player w32codecs. Then I get this listing:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

w32codecs is already the newest version.

The following extra packages will be installed:

aalib1 libdirectfb-0.9-22 libggi2 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libpolyp0

libpostproc0 libsvga1 mplayer-386 xmms

Suggested packages:

libggi-target-emu libggi-target-monotext libggimisc2 polypaudio konqueror

openoffice.org libdvdcss mplayer-doc

Recommended packages:

libggi-target-x libggi-target

The following NEW packages will be installed:

aalib1 libdirectfb-0.9-22 libggi2 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libpolyp0

libpostproc0 libsvga1 mozilla-mplayer mplayer-386 xmms

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