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infernova

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Registered: 2004-04-09

Posts: 61

WMV, QT plugins are not working within Opera

I found this is quite strange, but I wasn't sure whether I performed the right steps.

Here goes....

pacman would normally "auto-configure" your plugins to work with Fireforx browser, but not Opera in this case.

First it's flash plugin. What I did was simply copying "libflashplayer.so" from /opt/mozilla-plugins/ to /usr/lib/opera/plugins, and it worked.

To note: Creating soft link to in between these two directories worked well too.

Next, I copied out all mplayer-plug-in-* from the same path to opera plugins folder, and it didn't work. I tried to create soft link in between, and it didn't work as well.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

demonus

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Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: WMV, QT plugins are not working within Opera

try mozplugger, it's in the community repo

demonus

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Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: WMV, QT plugins are not working within Opera

just a few words of explanation: install mozplugger, ln -sf /opt/mozilla-plugins/.../mozplugger.so /usr/libs/opera/..../mozplugger.so   
(don't remember the paths correctly)
then in opera -> find new plugins and everything should work

sh__

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Registered: 2005-07-19

Posts: 272

Re: WMV, QT plugins are not working within Opera

Or just add the mozilla plugin path in Opera preferences:

Preferences > Advanced > Content > Plug-in options > Change path > Add

and choose /opt/mozilla-plugins.