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Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
Posts: 3,541
Rep:
MPlayerplug-in Kills Firefox
I'm using Firefox 3.0.3 (from Slackware current) in Slackware 12.1 with MPlayer, the codecs and MPlayerplug-in all from Slackbuilds.org (all currnt copies, downloaded and built today). Seamonkey 1.1.12 is installed. MPlayer appears to work fine opening, playing and closing without problems. MPlayerplug-in, though, playing any MPEG kills Firefox when I attemp to "go back one page" with the brower left arrow or alt-left or close an open window (after the video has finished). This occurs with any web site that has MPEG files along with the MPlayerplug-in test sit at http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/testing.php.
I have this in the ~.mplayer/config file:
Code:
vo=sdl
xy=3
and have tried video output (vo) set as xv, gl, gl2 and sdl with the same result; i.e., trying to "go back" from any MPEG kills the brower.
I gotta figure it's me, but darned if I know what to look for -- any hints?
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
Posts: 3,541
Original Poster
Rep:
...and when Firefox is killed, the only message I see anywhere is
Code:
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 53244 error_code 3 request_code 10 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
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