VLC mozilla plugin [SOLVED]

Sergejs.Magers · n00b Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Latvia

How to get the vlc mozilla plugin without mozilla but with firefox?

I tried to set the nsplugin USE flag and then re-emerge vlc, but it requested mozilla as a dependency.
Then i tried to add mozilla to package.mask, hoping that it won't emerge, but portage complained about a masked dependency so i removed it from there.
Then i tried running emerge --nodeps vlc but it exited with an error.

Anybody has an answer to my problem? :roll:

chunderbunny · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

It probably needs some headers from the Mozilla build tree in order to compile properly. In a similar way the mplayerplug-in package needs headers from gecko-sdk in order to compile. Unless someone patches it to compile against firefox or gecko-sdk then you're stuck with installing mozilla if you want the plug in to work in firefox.

einand · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

It does use mozilla-sdk to compile, but do not install mozilla as a browser if you have USE="-mozilla"
Also i rekomend mplayer plugins insteed. I hade some problems to get wmv movies to work in VLC.

Sergejs.Magers · n00b Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Latvia

It even failed when i emerged it with mozilla. :cry:

Searching for a different solution...

Sergejs.Magers · n00b Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Latvia

I got 2 news!

Good news:
vlc-0.8.2 compiles fine with the nsplugin use flag and about:plugins in Firefox shows that it is installed correctly.

Bad news:
There are still problems with that plugin.

P.S. I use mplayerplug-in now and I reckon that it's the best plugin so far.