I'm sure you can fix these.
I can view videos perfectly on the Sky News site (the URL you posted earlier). And the latest versions of nsplugins and Konqueror work fine on my laptop:
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# eix nsplugins
[I] kde-base/nsplugins
Available versions: (3.5) 3.5.5 3.5.5-r1 3.5.5-r2 (~)3.5.6 (~)3.5.6-r1 (~)3.5.6-r2 3.5.7 (~)3.5.8
{arts debug elibc_FreeBSD kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.8(3.5)(04:50:35 24/11/07)(arts kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility xinerama -debug -elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: Netscape plugins support for Konqueror.
* kde-base/nsplugins32 [1]
Available versions: (~)3.5.5 (~)3.5.6 (~)3.5.6-r1
Description: 32-bit Netscape plugins support for 64-bit Konqueror
[1] "sabayon" /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon
Found 2 matches.
# eix konqueror
[I] kde-base/konqueror
Available versions: (3.5) 3.5.5 (~)3.5.6 (~)3.5.6-r1 (~)3.5.7 (~)3.5.7-r1 3.5.7-r2 3.5.7-r3 (~)3.5.8
{arts branding debug elibc_FreeBSD java kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.8(3.5)(07:49:32 24/11/07)(arts java kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility xinerama -branding -debug -elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE: Web browser, file manager, ...
[I] kde-base/konqueror-akregator
Available versions: (3.5) 3.5.5 (~)3.5.6 3.5.7 (~)3.5.8
{arts debug elibc_FreeBSD kdeenablefinal xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.8(3.5)(08:08:38 24/11/07)(arts kdeenablefinal xinerama -debug -elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: konqueror's akregator plugin
Found 2 matches.
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So there should be no reason why you cannot view the videos. Why not try emerging Konqueror too? Just do:
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# emerge -uv nsplugins
# emerge -uv konqueror
The "u" should take them both up to the latest versions (like I have on my laptop: see above).
EDIT: By the way, as you mentioned you are a newcomer to SL, have you configured /etc/make.conf correctly for your PC? Apart from removing unnecessary entries in VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES for hardware you don't have installed, you need to add some missing global USE flags to that file -- see the following post by
freeallbadgers for a list of some USE flags to add if they are not already in the file:
viewtopic.php?f=53&t=11545&p=66371&hilit=missing+use+flags#p66314In my case, from experience emerging umpteen packages over nine months, I added the following global USE flags:
opengl qt4 qt3 qt3support gtk sdl png gif nls win32codecs bonobo kickoff
and I deleted some duplicate and triplicate global USE flags in the as-installed /etc/make.conf. (I also removed the "pda" USE flag as that was stopping the latest version of GNOME application Evolution from emerging.)
Getting /etc/make.conf right is the single most important thing you need to do after installing SL. Read the following guide for a good introduction into /etc/make.conf:
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=10863As recommended by
wolfden, I also added the following local USE flags to the entry for mplayerplug-in in /etc/portage/package.use:
net-www/mplayerplug-in gtk quicktime divx gmedia realmedia wmp win32codecs nsplugin firefox xvid
and also I rebuilt mplayerplug-in immediately using temporary USE flags:
USE="nls gtk quicktime divx gmedia realmedia wmp" emerge mplayerplug-in
If you look on the following page:
http://gentoo-portage.com/net-www/mplayerplug-inyou will find the list of USE flags that can be used to build the latest version (3.45) of mplayerplug-in. You can even click on 'View' to see the actual code of the ebuild and check the list of USE flags that the ebuild can process:
IUSE="gtk divx gmedia mplayer-bin nls realmedia quicktime wmp"
As you can see, the above IUSE list does not contain all the USE flags that
wolfden recommended, but it does no harm to include 'excess' USE flags, they will simply be ignored by the ebuild.
See the following guide for an introduction to the various types of USE flags:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=2