Fedora 7: mplayer plugin does not work with firefox (2.0.0 ?).
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 19 21:47:18 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:34 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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> From: Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:08:18 AM
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> Subject: Fedora 7: mplayer plugin does not work with firefox (2.0.0 ?).
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> Hi,
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> I still have previous Fedora Core 6 installed on one harddisk.
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> Here the mplayer plugin (version 3.35-1 from freshrpms) works
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> great with Firefox (version 1.5.0.12).
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> I bought a new harddisk and freshly installed Fedora 7.
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> I 'yummed' all necessary software for Firefox and Mplayer (plugin).
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> However, whatever I try, the plugin does not work.
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> The plugin starts (it says something like "downloading the file".
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> But when that is done, is displays just "Stopped" in the grey window
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> area that should display the movie picture.
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> Now, Fedora 7 comes with Firefox 2.0.0, and I wonder whether this
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> new 2.0 version somehow breaks the functioning of the mplayer plugin.
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> Could that be?
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When I installed Firefox 2 in FC6 all the previous plugins worked even
better than they did before. I have no comment on F7 though.
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> Or is there another trick needed, in order to get the plugin work with
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> Fedora 7 ?
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> Meanwhile, I keep using my old harddisk with Fedora Core 6; but I
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> easily can switch to Fedora 7, by connecting the other harddisk after
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> a shutdown, for testing Fedora 7 purposes.
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> Thank you.
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> Rob.
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> Rob,
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> Maybe you still have totem or totem enabled plugins. To check type on the address bar
> about:plugins.
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> you can also do a
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> [olivares at localhost ~]$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ -l
> total 0
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> and see if it is the culprit. It gets in the way. It won't play the files, but it also won't let another guy play them. I went to that directory created another one and moved the files to the directory and firefox does not see them, therefore mplayer-plugin kicks in and does it job.
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> In my user profile, I have the following plugins
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> [olivares at localhost ~]$ ls .mozilla/plugins/ -l
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 7040080 2007-06-11 10:16 libflashplayer.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 olivares olivares 53 2007-06-11 10:21 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/jre1.6.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 524908 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 1021 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 524912 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 1021 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 524920 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 1021 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 525876 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 524912 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 1021 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 olivares olivares 1021 2007-06-11 10:05 mplayerplug-in.xpt
> [olivares at localhost ~]$
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> Hope this helps.
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> Regards,
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> Antonio
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