Supported extensions

Linterna Mágica is tested with:

Supported browsers

Linterna Mágica is tested with:

Epiphany Epiphany versions older than 2.30 might have problems with Greasemonkey.

Free software versions of Firefox Free software versions of Firefox that support the Greasemonkey extension should work. Only GNU IceCat, Web Browser/ABrowser and Iceweasel are tested.

Midori

Iceape /Seamonkey

/Seamonkey Chromium

Supported video plugins

Plugins that can handle "video/flv" and "video/mp4" should work right away. Some plugins provide an API which is used in Linterna Mágica to support web controls, but this will require modifications to the code, if the plugin is not listed as supported. There is a configuration option to switch between controls provided by the plugin and Linterna Mágica.

These plugins are known to work:

Totem plugin. Versions older and equal to 2.30 does not have full API support for web controls. Newer versions of Totem have been patched (#623790, #618929) and should work.

VLC plugin

gecko-mediaplayer plugin Note: Have in mind that gecko-mediaplayer depends on mplayer for playback. Mplayer is free software by itself, but it can load and recommends binary only codecs. The completely free (as in freedom) distribution of GNU/Linux, Trisquel provides clean version of mplayer.

Xine plugin

Probably these plugins are available in your GNU/Linux distribution as a package.

You can test your browser plugins and the installation of Linterna Mágica at the test page.

Supported websites

Linterna Mágica is programmed in such a way that it might work (and it does) with web sites not specifically tested and supported. This is achieved by regular expressions, patterns and similarities between video sharing and posting sites. The main idea is that very little should be needed to support a new site - few changes in a regular expression, adding an address from where the clip should be extracted and so on. By default Linterna Mágica runs on every site, but that might not be suitable for you. Read the documentation to find out how to stop this.

Some of the most popular video sharing sites are known to work:

youtube.com

vimeo.com

metacafe.com

dailymotion.com

blib.tv

video.google.com (video.google.*)

vbox7.bg (Bulgarian)

There are more than 30 web sites, found with random web searches that are known to work. Web sites that have the video link somewhere in the HTML/JavaScript code, or it can be extracted through some ID, should work. If that is not the case, probably it will be very easy to support them. See the WEBSITES file in Linterna Mágica source tarball for all known working sites and more information.

Not supported websites

Websites that use RTMP to transfer the video are not supported.

For the moment flash objects embedded in remote web sites do not work. Since version 0.0.9 some remote objects are detected and a link to the web page of the video is provided.

Linterna Mágica is not working with specific browser or plugin or operating system. Is it possible to support it?

Only free software will be supported. Explicit support for non-free software will not be provided. If Linterna Mágica is working with non-free software you must be very "lucky". Yes, that is sarcasm!