mplayer + mplayerplugin + firefox

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: mplayer + mplayerplugin + firefox
started by: ivanh

Posted by ivanh on April 12 2005,15:18

hey,
does anybody here know how to get the mplayerplugin to work?

ADD:
mydsl packages: mplayer, mplayerplugin, gtk2
im using 1.0RC2

thanks in advance,
ivanh

Posted by mgmont on April 22 2005,15:21

I have also been trying to get Mplayerplug-in to work with Foxfire with no luck so far. I would surely appreciate any suggestions that might make it work.

I have just started using DSL about a month ago and I really like it. I am fairly new at using Linux, but I am learning a lot thanks to DSL.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 22 2005,16:37

Are you using the GTK2 version of Firefox?

It is available in the mydsl repository.

Posted by mgmont on April 26 2005,11:13

Probably not,I am just using what came on the distribution. I will download that version and try it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Posted by meo on April 27 2005,10:24

Hi guys!

I have tried to make the mplayer-plugin to work several ways but I just can't make it work. Mplayer works but not the plugin. Does anyone have some suggestions?

Have fun Y'all,
meo

Posted by larry on May 06 2005,18:54

How did you install the mplayer plugin ?
Ive read to create a symlink or place it in your ~user/.firefox/plugins

I never do that What I do is i make a global installation of firefox like this.

mv firefox-install firefox
cp -R firefox /usr/lib/ or
cp -R firefox /usr/local/lib/ your choice here

change to the mplayer plugin dir
./configure
make
make install
after make install I cp mplayerplugin.so to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
or where ever you installed firefox.
give firefox the proper permissions to allow all users of your system to use it and your done.
I hope this helps
Sincerely
Larry