arrgh, browser plugins...flash and quicktime...

grepcomputers · Guru Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 375

I cannot seem to get flash and quicktime to work with Mozilla or Firebird.

I emerged libflash, and libquicktime, no luck.

I downloaded the flash installer from shockwave.com and installed it into "/usr/lib/mozilla" and "/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird" (while all browsers were closed, and while root), no luck. In fact, I cannot seem to find any flash *.so files at all in those directories. But the installer gave no errors. When I first started firebird as my user after installing I got some error message about libflash.so not existing in some directory, something about nsbrowser (I think - sorry I can't be more specific on the error messages, but I cannot get them to reoccur)

What do I have to do to get flash and quicktime working with mozilla and/or firebird?

thanks...
...grep

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:07 am Post subject:

Check you have a symlink (and it has to be a symlink) to the flash library in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:

grepcomputers · Guru Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 375

I got flash working with your help, thanks!

but I still cannot get quicktime to work.

what are openquicktime and quicktime4linux?

do I need seperate ebuilds for the quicktime plugin and the ability to play quicktime files on my computer?

thanks...
...grep

Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

I used mplayer, the quicktime codecs, and the mplayerplugin for mozilla to get quicktime working.

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

How do you get the mplayerplugin to work? (I'm using fluxbox)

Thanks
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