I was very frustrated by the podcast page of Mika since the movies never played on my preferred Firefox browser under Linux. I complained to him and he added the disclaimer These podcasts require QuickTime. They will not run on a generic player. to his Calculus podcasts page.

What happened was that a missing-plugin warning blocked the player and redirected to a page where no Quicktime plugin was to be found for Linux. I spent some time today checking the iWeb template used to create the page thinking that maybe one could modify the scripting and do not require explicitely the quicktime plugin, however it turned out that the code itself does not mandate the usage of the quicktime player rather it checks the mime type. Therefore I searched for generic quicktime plugins and found plugger, a streaming multimedia plugin for Unix Mozilla. Beware and behold, it solved the problem just with one quick install line sudo yum install mozplugger. Now, when I check the plugins (about:plugins), it lists MozPlugger 1.7.3 handles QuickTime Windows Media Player Plugin with the mime type video/quicktime.

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