Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> clemens at dwf.com wrote: >>> This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 >>> When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some >>> files transfer, and then I get the message "General Error" in >>> the video window. >>> >>> I ASSUME some additional software needs to be downloaded, >>> but what from where? >>> >>> When running on that Other OS, a message comes up giving you >>> an opertunity to do the download. >> I'm guessing the general error is from a plugin, not Firefox itself. I'm >> guessing gstreamer backend totem plugin, but I don't really know. >> >> For flash - on 64-bit get the "alpha" 64-bit plugin from Macromedia. It >> works quite well, and you don't have to worry about nsplugin-wrapper. >> For 32-bit obviously just use the non alpha 32-bit rpm package from >> Adobe. They have a yum file that will keep it up to date. > > This one is packaged within RPMforge as flash-plugin. > There are some instructions for enabling multimedia support (including the flash-plugin from RPMForge) available on the Wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS