Many Google Chrome users have seen an error telling them “this plug-in is not supported” when they have opened a website on their browser. The content in the webpage fails to load but shows the error message instead.
This is an annoying issue. The content may be important for you, but you are unable to view it because of the error. You may be thinking anxiously what you should do to get rid of this error.
But don’t worry. It is possible to get rid of this error. Here are some fixes you should try:
1) Install the latest Adobe Flash Player
2) Clear the browsing data
3) Use another browser
1) Install the latest Adobe Flash Player
The issue you have encountered is that Google Chrome 42 has disabled NPAPI by default, and with it, the Java plug-in (among other plug-ins). With the updated browser, when you visit web pages with Java content, you see a gray area with a puzzle piece display in its place instead. The Windows Media Player plugin does not natively work in chrome. Chrome is based on Safari, so if you can find a plugin for safari, you should be able to use this in chrome. Otherwise, you will not be able to play wmp videos in chrome. Chrome on Linux. It is no longer possible to run a Java applet on Linux starting with Chrome Version 35 and later. Starting with Chrome version 35, NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) support was removed for the Linux platform. For more information, see Chrome and NPAPI (blog.chromium.org). Firefox is the recommended browser for Java on Linux. What chrome on android does is recognize the x-vlc-plugin, ignore the proprietary stuff and just push an vlc app intend. Also, about the cross-platform alternatives you mention: the current only solution would be to use ffmpeg/avconv/etc in a web server to repack the rtsp stream to http/websocket/webrtc. Then just add a tag and you're.
The plugin not supported error may occur because you have never installed Adobe Flash Player on your computer or the version you have is out of date. Therefore, your Google Chrome browser cannot load this plugin normally.
You should download the latest Adobe Flash Player. To do so, go to Adobe to download and install the latest version of Flash Player. Then restart your browser and see if this solves the problem.
2) Clear the browsing data
There may be corrupted browsing data in your browser that have made your browser failed to load some plugin. So you should clean the data to see if it fixes your problem. To do so:
1. On your Google Chrome, press Ctrl, Shift and Delete keys on your keyboard at the same time.
2. Select to clear the data from the beginning of time and tick all the items listed. Then click on Clear browsing data. The browsing data will be cleared immediately.
3) Use another browser
The plugin that your Chrome does not support may be the Java plugin. From the version 45, Google Chrome stops its support for NPAPI, an interface on which the Java plugin is based. If the content that is blocked requires the Java plugin, you should switch to another web browser in order for it to load, such as Internet Explorer (as recommended by Java).
MIME Content Type: application
What is MIME Application/X-mplayer2?
A particular section of the web content that you tried to browse was encrypted in the MIME Application/X-mplayer2 format. To properly render data embedded in this format, your PC requires either a particular browser plug-in or an application that is capable of decoding information according to the MIME Application/X-mplayer2 specification.
To learn more about MIME Application/X-mplayer2, please refer to RFCs and the lists of related MIME types or File Extensions.
How to fix MIME Application/X-mplayer2 errors?
Application X Mplayer2 Not Working
Web browsers, like IE and Firefox, use MIME Types to determine the best host applications to render and present binary data sets that are embedded in web pages. When you encounter a MIME Application/X-mplayer2 error, it is caused by one of the following two types of errors:
Application/x Mplayer2 Plugin Not Supported Chrome Browser
1) You PC doesn't have a host application that can open and render MIME Application/X-mplayer2 content. Like file extensions, each MIME Type corresponds to a particular host application that can be used to read and write binary data sets according to the matching MIME Type specification.
2) Your PC may have errors in the Windows Registry due to corrupt and invalid entries. Even if you have a matching host application installed, it couldn't be found and used by the Internet browser.
Recommendation:
It is strongly recommended that you scan your PC to identify and correct these errors to properly view content embedded in MIME Application/X-mplayer2 format.