Hi guys

Question: Can opera 7.11 play online video files that are build into the browser. Like for example if i want to see a movie preview at www.moviefone.com what plug-in do i need for opera 7.11 to have in order to play video online?

I have Xine working properly i havent gotten mplayer to work and i probably wont get it to work any time soon. Can i use Xine as part of a plugin to play online multimedia? Thanks in advance.

no. the mplayer plugin and xine-mozilla plugin do not work with opera. the best you can hope for is to edit the filetypes in opera's File > Preferences and have an external player pop up to play a given video filetype when it comes up. the new version of opera for linux (7.21 Final) actually breaks this too, for quicktime movie trailers at apple.com as far as my experience with opera 7.21.

mozilla works great though with either the mplayer or xine-mozilla plugin. if you type about:config in the address bar and turn on turbo mode, in some instances, it will load as fast as opera if not faster. plus the plugins will work from within the mozilla browser.

I have the PATH set in opera under file/preferences. One of my path's is looking into /usr/bin where my xine binary executable is located but opera still doesnt open xine for multimedia play. Any other thoughts?

not in your plugins path. the xine plugin won't work nor will the xine executable.

go to:

File > Preferences > Filetypes. click on the media file types like .mov, etc. and the edit button. check the radio button that says open with other application. then in the text box put in the command to your player like xine (or gmplayer, etc...).

Ok cool I edited all the "file type" files that should associate with .mov .avi etc. and pointed them to /usr/bin/xine. Then i tried accessing the online clips i see on bottom of opera that it was downloading kilobytes of data which i assume is the clip size but after it was done it did not open xine. Dunno what to do next. Any other thoughts?

like i said, i don't use opera for linux anymore since versions 7.X imo are a step backwords. i don't remember too much about 7.11 but it might have the same behavior as 7.21 where opening up the external player to view quicktime movies is broken (xine/mplayer opens for a couple seconds and disappears). version 6.XX worked fine on these though. i have to honestly suggest using mozilla 1.5 and move the xine-mozilla plugin (or mplayer plugin) into mozilla's plugins folder (default install directory is /usr/local/mozilla).

hmm that is interesting info... i found another problem. Apperantly xine has problems opening up new quicktime files. I downloaded Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King just to test it out. And found out that xine doesnt have a qdesign audio v2 codec. And i cant seem to find it anywhere on the net. Hmm Any other thoughts?

download the codecs for xine at either the mplayer site (from what i remember, the mplayer distributed codes will work with xine and are the same thing) or from here if using red hat:

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

if using another distro you can try this:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

scroll down to binary packages.