Bug#706154: gecko-mediaplayer: claims that an additional plugin is needed, but standalone gnome-mplayer plays the video

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Version: 1.0.8-1
Severity: normal

Hello,
I wanted to check that bug #689862 is still fixed in
gnome-mplayer/1.0.8-1 + gecko-mediaplayer/1.0.8-1

To my great surprise, the following happened:

  0) I started iceweasel

  1) I opened a video in a new tab, for instance:
     http://content.funny-base.com/videos2/trunkmonkey01.wmv

  2) iceweasel behaves exactly as if none of the installed plugins were 
     able to deal with this file type: it popped up a dialog window,
     offering me to download the video or to open it with GNOME MPlayer

  3) I chose to open the video with GNOME MPlayer and a standalone
     instance of gnome-mplayer appeared, playing the video correctly

  4) I then tried the web page that embeds the same video:
     http://www.funny-base.com/videos/792-trunkmonkey01.html

  5) the NoScript extension blocked the JavaScript code;
     I right-clicked on the page and selected "Temporarily allow
     funny-base.com" from the NoScript submenu

  6) an iceweasel warning appeared inside a yellow bar at the top of
     the web page, claiming that "Additional plugins are required to
     display all the media on this page"; the area that should embed
     the video showed a similar warning ("A plugin is needed to display
     this content")

  7) I don't want to install plugins for my regular user, I strongly
     prefer to install Debian packages (as root), so that plugins and
     extensions are installed system-wide (for all the users); but,
     still, I wanted to see what would have have been installed: I tried
     to click on the "Install plugin" link

  8) a dialog window appeared running the Plugin Finder Service and
     saying that "No suitable plugins were found", "Unknown Plugin
     (video/x-ms-wmv)"...
     N.B.: with other videos, the MIME type claimed to be associated
     to an unknown plugin may be different (for instance
     video/x-msvideo)

Why does gecko-mediaplayer claim that additional plugins are needed
to play the above-mentioned videos, while gnome-mplayer is able to
play them, when running in a standalone window?

Is this a bug or did I misunderstand something?

The same web pages used to work correctly with gnome-mplayer/1.0.7-2
+ gecko-mediaplayer/1.0.6-1, hence this looks like a regression...

Please fix this issue and/or forward my report upstream.

Thanks for your time!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gecko-mediaplayer depends on:
ii  gconf2            3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gnome-mplayer     1.0.8-1
ii  libc6             2.13-38
ii  libcurl3          7.26.0-1+wheezy2
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.100.2-1
ii  libgcc1           1:4.7.2-5
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgmlib1         1.0.7-1
ii  libstdc++6        4.7.2-5

gecko-mediaplayer recommends no packages.

gecko-mediaplayer suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information