the mplayer-embed-mozilla plugin worked before i upgraded from slack 10RC1 to slack10.0; i am guessing it is a problem with the new mozilla-1.7 or its packaging

in the console, i get a typical gtk-assertion warning, but then it says
*****send command truncated******

about 2 or 3 times; in the browser, the plugin appears to loadup and it downloads the movie file, but there is no media panel, and the movie won't play (not even by right clicking on the player and clicking play)

i am testing on the cube.ign.com website; i have tried to build the latest plugin (2.66) and it is supposed to be compatible with mozilla-1.7, but compilation fails; i downloaded the gecko-sdk and built successfully with that, but the plugin still won't work...

could anyone confirm this problem? how can i solve this?
*first, i want to see if anyone can compile the plugin normally (simply to ./configure without any options), to see if it is just my packages that are messed up

I just opted for gxine plugin instead... I couldn't ever get the mplayer plugin working with RC2 and now 10.0... gxine isn't embedded but it plays everything that the mplayer plugin did...

i stopped using xine a looong time ago... in fact, i dont' even have the xine package anymore....

i'll have to look into that again, but i think the gxine plugin actually gave me some problems before; the mplayer plugin worked for me the first time

has anyone been able to use the mplayer plugin successfully on slackware 10?

*edit: to the above poster: so you had the plugin working before rc2? was your problem the same as mine?

Yeah, I would just get a black screen... Never checked into the errors though... and it was too much hassle to get it to recompile with mozilla 1.7 (ie downloading the sdk kit etc) gxine was a matter of installing xine-libs, gxine front end, and copying over the .a, .so, .la files to the plugin dir. What can I say, I'm lazy...

I could not get the mplayer plugin to make.

okay, so i'm not the only one experiencing the problem...

i'll email the author of the plugin, and hopefully it will be fixed (of course assuming it is a problem with the plugin....)

okay, problem solved!

i tried running gmplayer today, but it spit out an error about missing libvorbis; searching through slackware-current, here is what i find:

ap/oggutils-1.0-i386-3.tgz: Removed. This is replaced by separate libao,
libogg, libvorbis, and vorbis-tools packages.

so i ran swaret and installed the vorbis packages and the dependencies (libao and libogg), gmplayer worked, and i tried building the mplayer-plugin again

however, still not luck building normally

you will need the gecko-sdk plugin (i used v1.7) and the plugin should build; copy the .so file to the plugins directory and the .xpt file to the components directory; it should work now

however, using firefox 0.9, after using the plugin and browsing to a couple of webpages, the browser will crash... i don't know if this is true for mozilla or an older version of firefox (never crashed on 0.8, though)

can someone test the crash in other browsers? (it won't damage anything); i used cube.ign.com to view movies, then navigated to linuxquestions.org; after clicking a few links here, the browser dies

*edit: i just tried using mozilla, and it worked fine...; looks like this is a problem with firefox 0.9

i will also have to contact the slackware team to see if they know why the mplayer plugin won't compile

**edit 2: if anyone happens to stumble over this post - the crashing issue is resolved in firefox 0.9.1