Multimedia :: Need help with mplayer plugin for firefox

Can someone help me install the mplayer plug-in for firefox? I'm rather lost.

You just use the dsl browser to install mplayer and mplayer-plugin. Then you have to copy the plugins from /opt/firefox/plugins to /usr/local/firefox/plugins. then just type about:plugins in firefox address bar to check there installed.

I have the mplayer tar.bz2 file, I can find out how to compress it and install it, but what are the dependencies? What other packages will I need to use the plug-in, the watch the movies on the internet?

Edit, I unzipped the file, but I'm not quite sure how to install it. I tried "installpkg Mplayer... .tar" but that didn't work.

You don't have to do all that. click on the mydsl icon>multimeda section, then just scroll dowm to mplayer and click on it> then click on download. that's it, it will be installed. and while your at it click on the apps section> rox.dsl so you can have a icon based file manager(like windows)

About:plugins said that I didn't have the plugins installed. Could the folder for my plugins be different than what you were thinking? BTM, you have been extremely helpful so far, thanks a lot. I didn't even know about MyDSL!

Edit: I tried puting them in ~/.mozilla/plugins, but that didn't work either.

Edit #2: It seems firefox says: "# Copy mplayerplug-in.so to your Mozilla plugins folder, and mplayerplug-in.xpt to your Mozilla components folder." at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer. One problem, my ~/.Mozilla on my computer has no "components" folder for mplayer-in.xpt. Something to do with what they said next ??: " If you are not using a build of Mozilla compiled with GTK2 support, you will need to run configure with --enable-gtk1." I don't know.

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