MPlayer + Mplayerplug-in + Netscape-Flash [Solved]

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

...all in firefox. Point is that Adobe-Flash doesnt work for the compiled Firefox (because I run a x64 sys) whereas MPlayer-Plugin doesnt work for the BIN-Version of Firefox. Sorta screwed. But mind that I dont want to use the pluginwrapper for flash. I need to get it both going in Firefox. And I'd prefer if it worked for FF-BIn.

yngwin · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject:

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

Hey Sir, it's not like I'd missed your help on the Channel last time, yngwin :-D

Maybe my fault I didn't brief you about the results explicitly.

In fact, it still want's to install FF as the compiling-version and I honestly doubt that confirming that will port the mplayerplug-in into Firefox-BIN, which I nessesarily have to use with intent to get Flash running.

So, if you can come up with any other ideas or correct me in regards to the above; I'd praise you :P

yngwin · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:17 am Post subject:

I understand this is all a bit confusing, so I will try to explain what is going on with this package.

The mplayer plugin needs to compile against some mozilla libraries. Therefore it needs one of mozilla-firefox, seamonkey or xulrunner as a dependency. You can use useflags to tell the ebuild which one you want it to use. USE=firefox or USE=seamonkey will give you the corresponding dependency, and USE="-firefox -seamonkey" will pull in xulrunner.

Setting the mplayer-bin useflag (on a amd64 profile) will pull in the 32bits mplayer-bin package as dependency, which will give you the possibility to use it with a 32bits browser, such as mozilla-firefox-bin.

If you are on amd64 multilib (the normal profile) it will actually build both the 32bits and the 64bits plugin. So depending on the presence of mplayer and/or mplayer-bin, you should actually be able to use both versions of the plugin.

Either way, following the instructions I provided earlier, you should get a working mplayer plugin for a 32bits browser.
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ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

I've tried it but divx is still not embedded into firefox-bin. What is left to do?

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

Hello?!?

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

cough

(yes, sorry, but what else can i do?)

yngwin · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:44 am Post subject:

In Firefox, type 'about:plugins' in the adressbox and check to see if the plugin gets loaded.
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ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

There is a huge section labeled "mplayerplug-in 3.50"