PowerPC Mozilla Plugin disabling Quicktime Plugin?

[subw]

I have used the new plugin now for about three days and had quite some issues (I am on 10.3.9):
- Often, it will not play for a long time or not at all
- Files that Quicktime can play should still be played by Quicktime instead of the VLC plugin
- No pause/resume buttons are shown, pausing also does not work with the space bar.

Just moments ago, I even had to restart my Mac because it didn’t react any more because of the Plugin. Had to do this maybe one time before in a year.

[Guest]

I have been combing the internet for instructions to remove this plugin - its really screwing up my browser-based playback... Files would definitely be playable by Quicktime (.mpeg for example) are not playing at all and no video controls show up in FireFox or Safari. ARRRGH!

[subw]

Just get into your root Library Folder (not the one in your home directory) and into the Sub-Folder Internet Plug-Ins (e.g. Macintosh HD:Library:Internet Plug-Ins) and delete the file VLC Plugin.plugin. That’s it.

[The DJ]

I'm a bit confused as to why the VLC plugin gets loaded instead of the QT one. This shouldn't occur. If you can point out specific sites that show this behaviour, it would be appreciated.

[gknauth]

I'm running OS X 10.4.6 on PPC. I installed the 0.8.5 plugin when it came out on Monday 15 May. From that point on, videos in web pages wouldn't play. But the worst issue was this: if you went to the following web page:

http://www.tulpehockenwater.com/ [Warning: Sound]

and clicked on the "Contact Us" link,

- it would lock up Safari completely
- if you were using Firefox, it locked up the Mac
(you could use the mouse, but do nothing else)

I removed the plugin and now that "Contact Us" page comes up fine.

[knovski]

hi, i experienced the same problem: installed plugin and now no movies play as they used to... maybe it's an issue with quicktimes h.264 codec. i guess the vlc plugin wants to play them, but he can't.
actually with firefox i could play the movies but had no control (pause, play, forward etc).

here is a site with h.264 qt files which don't play in safari, but do play in firefox:

http://www.ehrensenf.de

btw i'm working on a g4 powerbook, so it's not an intel issue.

would like to keep the vlc plugin but dissable mov/h.264 support and watch those files with quicktime....

any suggestion how to do so?

[The DJ]

You cannot atm.