Hi. I just set up Firefox to use the mplayerplug to view video files. I did this by linking mplayerplug-in.so and mplayerplug-in.xpt in .mozilla/plugins.

Now I can watch embedded video files in Firefox, which is great. What I am not so excited about is some of the other "features". When the video file is not embedded, click on the link to it sends the browser to the blank grey "mplayerplug" page in which the video loads. Is there some way to configure it to just launch a stand-alone mplayer without leaving the originating page?

Even more annoying, now mplayerplug grabs mp3 files (and sends my browser the same damn grey screen) instead of sending them to xmms. I have tried to force firefox to use xmms for mp3s by going to Edit > Preferences > Downloads and creating an entry for the mp3 file type, but mplayerplug still grabs the mp3 files. How can I over-ride this?

I'm running Fedora Core 2 and the latest versions of Firefox and mplayerplug.

Thanks!

Don't know how to keep that gray page from opening with the plugin, however, the .mp3 issue is not with firefox, but an assotiation problem.

If your using KDE Open the "Control Center" under:

Componets >> File Associations

Under the "known types" tree:
Audio >> x-mp3

Under "Applications Prefrence Order":

Click on "xmms" and move to the top...

KC

Take a look at the mplayerplug-in webpage, it gives details for all the settings.

I think this is the one you want to change.

"noembed=[0|1] Note forces mplayer to be in it's own window if set to 1"
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/config.php

I don't think this is it. Firefox had always associated mp3s with xmms and it was only when I linked the mplayerplug stuff that the behavior changed.

I checked my file associations under Gnome (Preferences > File Types and Programs) and mp3s are associated with xmms.



Yes, this looks like what I want (in fact, the fileonly-embed looks like exactly what I want), but I can't get these options to do anything! I tried creating mplayerplug-in.conf files with these options enabled in ~/.mplayer and in ~/.mozilla, closed firefox, deleted pluginreg.dat for good measure, and the options still aren't recognized -- same old grey screen.

Thanks for the advice, guys -- I wish it had worked! Any other ideas?

Try putting your options in the "mplayerplug-in.conf" in /etc It may be overiding the one in your $HOME folder.

/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf

KC