Mplayer Firefox Plugin

[Hobashira]

With FC6 then F7, in order to play videos embedded in Firefox, all I did was removing the Totem-mozplugin which never worked, then install Mplayer and the Mplayerplugin for Mozilla.

I could see my plugin installed in Firefox if I checked with "about plugins", and videos would then play fine .

With F8, it does not work (videos will not play). I get the "plugin missing" message and "about plugins" actually do not show any plugin installed, although I did install it !

Has anyone experienced the same thing?

[Seve]

Hello:
I'm assuming you are using F8 32bit ?

Check the contents of
ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and
ls /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.X/plugins

and if the mplayerplug's are only located in
usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
you may have to copy them to your
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.X/plugins

Then restart firefox and check about:plugins

Seve

[jeffy5]

Yes, I have experienced the same problems with MPlayer in Fedora 8. I am running 32-bit Fedora 8 and I already installed the codecs from a third-party repository but continue to see that the plugins are not installed when I attempt to stream audio through Firefox.

[jeffy5]

Thanks Seve,

I got MPlayer working by using your post. I don't know if this should be reported to FC8, since they are not in the business of helping out with third party codecs but any sites with Fedora 8 user guides should get this information, for it will help out a great deal.

[Hobashira]

Seve,

Sorry for not coming back to you earlier but I was out for a few days.

I followed your advice, found that not only the mplayer plugins were not installed in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.X/plugins but that the actual directory /firefox-2.0.0.X/plugins did not exist in /usr/lib/ so I made it, then copied the relevant files.

Unfortunately, aboutplugins still show that no plugins are installed and embedded videos still do not play

A wee bit confusing, isn't it?

[strikeforce]

Is it 2.0.0.x or is 2.0.0.8 or 2.0.0.9?

[Hobashira]

Right.

Shall we put this on account that I was tired after a long driving trip?

If not, I do not think that anybody can explain to me why I dutifully typed '2.0.0.X' instead of '2.0.0.8', which is my Firefox version.

Problem solved.

Thanks Seve.
Thanks Strikeforce

[johannlo]

Is it just me or do a TON of stuff not play properly with the mplayer plugin?
not only the infamous mms streams but tonnes of http streams as well.....
is the VLC plugin any better, and is there a way of making it and mplayer plugin get along (or do they screw each other up) etc.

[strikeforce]

I prefer mplayer but yes there are a few things that don't work, I can live with that.

[johannlo]

Thanks for confirming

[Evil_Bert]

Never used VLC, but mplayer doesn't play everything, even with the latest additional codecs (e.g. from the mplayerhq.hu site).

Apologies if teaching you to suck eggs , but don't forget to configure the mplayer-plugin once installed. Either edit your '/home/<username>/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf' file, or use the GUI by opening a web browser window that will start the mplayerplug-in and right-clicking on the mplayerplug-in window, then selecting Configure from the pop-up menu. There you'll see a bunch of media support options, not all of which are enabled by default. Plus you can remove conflicts with other browser plugins you have installed (e.g. realplayer) that address the same media types.

If you have sound problems, change the sound system in the Audio Output box, and similarly the Video Output box if video problems occur.

You can experiment with the RTSP /HTTP selections as well and let me know if that does anything useful for you (it hasn't done much for me so far) - looks like that's more for firewall compatibility than anything else.

You can write a small shell script that copies plugins from the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder to the /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.X/plugins folder every time firefox gets updated (and deletes the plugins).

I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do that (i.e. survive yum firefox updates and preserve all your plugins), so if you know of one, please post the solution.