mplayer plugin for mozilla in fc1
Scott Talbot
talbotscott at cox.net
Wed Nov 26 01:52:16 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:23, Clint wrote:
> I'm not able to view movies using mplayer's plugin in Mozilla. I am
> however, able to view them off-line using mplayer. Here's what I've done:
>
> dowloaded the source mplayerplug-in-1.0pre2.tar.gz
> logged in as root
> tar -xzvf mplayerplug-in-1.0pre2.tar.gz
> cd mplayerplug-in
> ./configure
> make
> cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> restarted mozilla
>
> I did verify that mplayerplug-in.so is in the plugins directory:
>
> [clint at localhost plugins]$ ls
> libflashplayer.so mozplugger.so raclass.zip
> libjavaplugin_oji.so mplayerplug-in.so rpnp.so
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Mozilla shows that it has the mplayer plugin when I open the About
> Plugins in Mozilla:
>
> mplayerplug-in v1.0pre2 handles QuickTime Windows Media Player Plugin
>
> File name: mplayerplug-in.so
> Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime and Windows Media Player streams
> using mplayer
>
> MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
> video/quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
> video/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
> video/quicktime Quicktime mp4 Yes
> [...many more lines deleted...]
>
> but when I visit http://www.apple.com/trailers/ to try to view any of
> the Quicktime trailers, a white box opens and a text message says:
>
> mplayerplug-in
> Playing http://a772.g.akamai.net/(blah blah blah)
>
> and the video doesn't ever start.
>
> This is on a FC1 machine upgraded from RH9.
>
This may be a dumb question, but as I haven't seen the codecs on the
freshrpms - did you download them from mplayer.hu?
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