Mplayer plugin causes Firefox to crash

dannyl · 02-01-2009, 11:35 AM

I have recently switched my laptop to Slack 12.2. Everything seems to be working except mplayer plugin causing firefox to crash. It seems to happen if I decide to quit before the video finishes or if the video type is not supported. I searched the forum for answers and found several java related, but nothing about mplayer-plugin.

Thanks for any help.

Dan
[edit:] a new search found some related posts, but for older versions [/edit:]

[edit:] this is the error I get if I start firefox from a terminal:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/crashreporter: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 16366 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} [/edit:]

lurko · 02-01-2009, 09:31 PM

You might try gecko-mediaplayer instead. I never had trouble with crashes, but recently I found the mplayer plugin to be wanting and read that it's not really maintained anymore. Apart from the fact that it depends on gnome-mplayer(and consequently some gnome bits) and not simply mplayer, I'm finding gecko mediaplayer quite satisfactory. It plays the videos I couldn't get the mplayer plugin to play at least.

The VLC plugin might be another alternative.

disturbed1 · 02-02-2009, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dannyl

error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4:

Sounds like it requires a few extra libraries. Gconfig - which requires ORBIT2, both at www.slackbuilds.org. Or you could use the kaffeine plugin, which uses the included in Slackware by default Xine back end.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-02-2009, 07:33 AM

If you install the libs and it still crashes, I would try media player connectivity extension for FF. It has never crashed for me. Plugins tend to crash more.

gegechris99 · 02-02-2009, 10:03 AM

Hello,

According to the README of the mplayerplug-in package on http://slackbuilds.org/:

Quote:

NOTE: You must have SeaMonkey (from Slackware) installed in order
for this package to build.

So do you have SeaMonkey installed?

If it still doesn't work, which version of the plug-in did you install, how (compile, Slacbuild,...)?

disturbed1 · 02-02-2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

If you install the libs and it still crashes, I would try media player connectivity extension for FF. It has never crashed for me. Plugins tend to crash more.

Thanks for that. Sounds like the best solution to me.

dannyl · 02-02-2009, 05:07 PM

Thanks for the responses. I have Seamonkey installed. I tried installing the lib from Slackbuilds. Orbit2 worked fine but the link to gconf appears to be broken, it takes me to a blnk page.

Dan

gegechris99 · 02-03-2009, 03:45 AM

Hello Dannyl,

Here's the GConf slackbuild page:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.2/libraries/GConf/

It works fine for me now.

Also I could download the source file:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/source...-2.9.91.tar.gz

Maybe you tried during a downtime period of the server.

Try again.

dannyl · 02-04-2009, 01:05 PM

Hi to all. Thank you each for your responses. It appears to be working now that I have ORBit2 and Gconf installed.