Need help playing mpegs, avi's,etc. online

Xris718 · 05-12-2003, 05:33 PM

Hi Guys

I need some advice. Im using rh8 and have netscape 7 browser however i cant seem to play quicktime or realplayer files that are on the internet. I know i need a plugin for that any advice where i can get one? I tried using plugger-4.0 but it dont seem to work.

Thanks.

MasterC · 05-12-2003, 05:42 PM

Get the MplayerPlugin-in and make sure you have mplayer installed. www.freshmeat.net

Cool

martinman · 05-12-2003, 05:53 PM

masterC, i was interested in this as well, their site is (imho) pretty useless, so could you tell me/us how to install it? i untarred, see the .c source files and .h headers and stuff, so i assumed it was just a ./configure, make, make install, not the case...help??

Xris718 · 05-12-2003, 05:58 PM

Is there an rpm version of this? and where can i get it ?

martinman · 05-12-2003, 07:05 PM

seems like freshmeat is the only place Xris, its kinda like sourceforge

MasterC · 05-12-2003, 08:18 PM

Well, there are actually 2 (maybe more) different Mplayer Plugins. One is good, the other I don't know about it since I found the good one first

Here's the link:
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

Cool

Xris718 · 05-13-2003, 01:16 PM

Guys I installed the mplayer but theres no GUI. I cant play it. I tried installing it using ./configure --enable-gui it told me that i need libpng-dev and libpng. I checked out my rpms i have libpng installed but i dont have libpng-dev. And i cant seem to find libpng-dev anywhere on the net. Any help would be appreciated, thanks...

martinman · 05-13-2003, 01:47 PM

hehe, you can still use it! actually i prefer using it from terminal, just type mplayer <filename>

but if you want the gui you hafta download one from mplayerhq.hu themselves. Yeah, geniuses didnt include one...all instructions are there, though

martinman · 05-13-2003, 01:48 PM

btw about the plugins, i got it to work from tar.gz, stupid rpms...however the reason i wanted the plugin was to support avi's, which is about the only filetype it doesnt, any more help?

Xris718 · 05-13-2003, 02:02 PM

Yeah like i can use it from the terminal but all i hear is sound but no picture. I went to mplayerhq.hu and downloaded a skin but its kinda useless i guess since i cant even open up mplayer as a GUI. I tried installing it as a GUI but was unsuccessful. I even tried opening up a file of type mpeg using mplayer but was unable to. I need 'gmplayer' to have GUI. And i dont know where to get it.

martinman · 05-13-2003, 03:36 PM

gmplayer IS mplayer with a gui, just type gmplayer in any terminal window and there ya go...snicker snicker, its fun when im not the one askin the questions

MasterC · 05-13-2003, 08:50 PM

The mplayer plugin should support anything that regular mplayer does. So if you can play avi's (avi's are simply wrappers anyway, it really depends on the codec they used to compress it) that are compressed with that codec using mplayer, then your plugin player should work just fine.

Basically, just make sure you have the win32 codecs pack, along with the RH and DivX ones.

Cool

martinman · 05-13-2003, 09:01 PM

hehe, the problem was in teh source! a pro web-design guy for my dads corporation is using <img> tags instead of <embed>, while IE can handle this, that's about it. Haha, i changed the code and too my own astonishment, it worked.

Must sting to be beat by a kid one third his age

Xris718 · 05-13-2003, 10:52 PM

Hey guys thanks for sticking this one out with me ... however i did try gmplayer and sad to say but no luck. All i got was "command not found". I then tried searching everything under root directory for gmplayer and i didnt find it. Then i found an article saying i should edit the config file to put this line in "gui=yes". Yet still no luck with it. Im still confused

tcaptain · 05-14-2003, 11:56 AM

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Originally posted by Xris718
Hey guys thanks for sticking this one out with me ... however i did try gmplayer and sad to say but no luck. All i got was "command not found". I then tried searching everything under root directory for gmplayer and i didnt find it. Then i found an article saying i should edit the config file to put this line in "gui=yes". Yet still no luck with it. Im still confused

When you do ./configure for mplayer you need to add:

--enable-gui

If I remember correctly, its been almost a month since I've compiled Mplayer

But there are additional steps beyond that to make it work properly tho...wish I could help more, but after trying a bit and running into problems, I'm just using the command-line...works great and its less overhead.