Hi, I am running Mandriva 2007 powerpack and I have Firefox 1.5.0.7 and it says Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 etc. in the "About" section of Firefox help. So I am assuming I am using gecko-sdk-1.8.0.7. I have Mplayer installed already and I am trying to install the plugin for Mplayer so that I can play all streaming files, windows or real media format. I downloaded gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.tar.gz and extracted it to some place and all. When I ran the "make" command in the mplayer directory, it runs for a while and then gives the following code, where it starts facing problems and gives errors. I am a newbie and I don't have any idea what it means. Could someone please take a look at the code and let me know what I am missing and what I need to do. Thanks.


Source/plugin-ui.cpp:6:21: error: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory
Source/plugin-ui.cpp:48:2: error: #error libXpm has not been found. Compilation
cannot continue
include/pluginbase.h:55: warning: ‘class nsPluginInstanceBase’ has virtual funct
ions but non-virtual destructor
/home/veeral/Download/gecko-sdk/include/nsISupportsBase.h:80: warning: ‘class ns
ISupports’ has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h:25: warning: ‘class nsIScriptableWMPPlugin’
has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h:120: warning: ‘class nsIScriptableMplayerPlu
gin’ has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/home/veeral/Download/gecko-sdk/include/nsIProgrammingLanguage.h:32: warning: ‘c
lass nsIProgrammingLanguage’ has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/home/veeral/Download/gecko-sdk/include/nsIClassInfo.h:33: warning: ‘class nsICl
assInfo’ has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
Source/nsScriptablePeer.h:56: warning: ‘class nsClassInfoMixin’ has virtual func
tions but non-virtual destructor
Source/plugin-ui.cpp: In function ‘void Initialize(Display*, Drawable, nsPluginI
nstance*, _XGC*)’:
Source/plugin-ui.cpp:72: error: ‘XpmCreatePixmapFromData’ was not declared in th
is scope
make: *** [plugin-ui.o] Error 1

why bother compiling it at all? http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

Hi, thank you for your guidance. Honestly speaking, I was confused when I clicked on the link you wanted me to go to. It was becuase I saw two rpms, one mplayerplugin-debug-3.25-2mdk.i586.rpm and the other one is mplayerplugin-3.25-2mdk.src.rpm. I installed the second file first and I installed directly through the gurpmi associated with Opera. While installing this file, it said it could not install all the packages becuase of some gtk2+ (I didn't save the name of the file correctly, but that's the name of the file I remember) but asked me to continue with the installation, which I did. I then installed the debug rpm which installed perfectly. Please let me know if I did right. Do I have to do anything else to associate Mplayer as the default player for both Opera and Firefox to play all media files? Thanks.

my bad, i thought that contained the right rpm, try this... http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

Even after installing this correct rpm, when I try to open an online video, Mplayer doesn't kick in automatically and start playing the video. The window of the video once said I needed mplayerplug-in and on other occasion it said it needed mozplugger. I have mozplugger and mplayerplug-in installed already, but still I am getting those errors. Any idea what's going on?

I unsitalled mplayer and mozplugger and reinstalled them. Now I am getting different errors in the form of "could not find an hxplayer or realplay in the path of the system to use as an embedded player". I am lost. I even installed wine but don't know how to work with it even after researching about on the net. Could someone help? Thanks.

I have an update:

The error about the video not being played because it did not find a realplay or hxplay is gone now as I re-installed realplayer. I can play real videos now, which I could play even earlier before uninstalling realplayer. I unsitalled realplayer so that mplayer could become my default player for online media. So now, I can play real videos (although I can't expand the screen to full screen), but I can't play windows media video. When I try to play windows media video, the mplayer screen loads in the window of the video and it syas it's loading the video but nothing loads. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I have an update:

The error about the video not being played because it did not find a realplay or hxplay is gone now as I re-installed realplayer. I can play real videos now, which I could play even earlier before uninstalling realplayer. I unsitalled realplayer so that mplayer could become my default player for online media. So now, I can play real videos (although I can't expand the screen to full screen), but I can't play windows media video. When I try to play windows media video, the mplayer screen loads in the window of the video and it says it's loading the video but nothing loads. Any suggestions? Thanks.