Mplayer-plugin with Firefox 1.5.0.7 with FC6 - successfully setup, but does not play
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Mplayer-plugin with Firefox 1.5.0.7 with FC6 - successfully setup, but does not play
Hi all
I've successfully compiled and installed Mplayer and this plugin. The plugin's various files are listed correclty in Firefox in the aboutlugins list, so I know the .so's are loading etc.
However, it seems as if the plugin is not "detected" on most sites. CNN for example has just a grey block where (in my previous FC3 mplayer plugin setup) the player would pop up and start playing...
Mplayer itself works fine and is in the path.
Is firefox 1.5.0.7 that comes with FC6 too old to use MPlayer plugin? What else could be wrong?
Get the Linux x86 20061022 codecs extract and place them in the /usr/lib/codecs directory, create the directory if needed as root; mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
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But do you have the codec(s) needed to play the video(s)??? Is the path for your compiled mplayer the same as the prebuilt rpm package and where the mplayerplug-in is expecting it??
But do you have the codec(s) needed to play the video(s)??? Is the path for your compiled mplayer the same as the prebuilt rpm package and where the mplayerplug-in is expecting it??
Yes, I've downloaded the codecs packages and put them in the location specified by MPlayer when it finishes configuring.
As regards the plugin, I used no RPMs... I compiled the MPlayer plugin myself, as well as MPlayer...
Hi, I saw this thread and it deals pretty much with a problem I am facing. I am trying to play videos from www.cbsnews.com and I have real player installed so the video pops up in a separate real player window. I have Mplayer installed and I just installed the plugin rpm from pbone. I have the codecs 20061022 extracted in the directory /usr/lib/codecs but still my Mplayer is not the default player for online videos. I too have a grey window opened instead of Mplayer opeing the window for the video when I click on the video link. Why would this be? What am I still missing? I am trying to make Mplayer to play online videos (as I understand it will play videos of all format, windows as well as real) on Firefox 1.5.07 on Mandriva Powerpack 2007. I am a novice so I would appreciate if some help is provided in a way I can understand and follow what exactly I need to do. Thanks.
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
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To keith11;
The easy answer is to remove realplayer (it is a memory/resource hog anyhow) and install the mplayerplug-in-3.31 rpm package. For the record what I have installed mplayer wise;
I did have the 20061022 codecs extracted in /usr/lib/codecs. I am new to all these and need some more guidance as to how to make mplayer as my default player. Thanks.
I am a novice with linux. I guess you were saying if I removed Realplayer Mplayer will automatically take its place. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.
Following is the output of "rpm -qa 'mplayer*' | sort":
mplayer-1.0-1.pre8.13plf2007.0
mplayer-fonts-1.0-12mdv2007.0
mplayerplugin-3.25-2mdv2007.0
mplayerplugin-debug-3.25-2mdk
The error message I get while trying to play a video on cbsnews.com is "Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player".
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