mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

Birdman · 2006-09-02 10:50:04

I help maintain an Arch box for a friend and fully updated her system last week (it became more up to date than my own box!) and found that mplayer-plugin in firefox would not work. On returning home I checked my system and it worked fine. However, I have just run an update on my own system and now have mplayer-plugin-3.31.1 and it does not work I can only assume that there is some issue with the most recent version? I have just run

locate mplayer-plugin

hoping that the old version would still be around somewhere, but it is not. How do I obtain a copy of the previous package so that I can test whether it is the new package causing the problem? Or, get the new package working?

Thanks.

stonecrest · 2006-09-02 11:11:34

Birdman wrote:

However, I have just run an update on my own system and now have mplayer-plugin-3.31.1 and it does not work I can only assume that there is some issue with the most recent version?

Dunno, works here. If she just upgraded, she might have to close/reopen firefox or logout/login of her user. I think there might've been a path change associated with mplayer at one point.

scarecrow · 2006-09-02 11:20:12

It does not work here, either- dunno why. However the old 3.25-3 is working.
You can run ABS as root, pick from /var/abs/extra/multimedia/mplayer-plugin the full contents, cp them at some folder at your home dir, and replacing the PKGBUILD with the old one:

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.29 2006/06/27 17:37:28 alexander Exp $
# Mantainer: Alexander Baldeck <alexander>
pkgname=mplayer-plugin
pkgver=3.25
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play videos from websites."
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/"
depends=(gcc mozilla-common mplayer libxi libxt libxpm)
makedepends=(xulrunner pkgconfig)
backup=(etc/mplayer-plugin.conf)
install=mplayer-plugin.install
source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-${pkgver}.tar.gz
        mplayerplug-in.conf)

build() {
  [ -z "${MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH}" ] && . /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
  cd ${startdir}/src/mplayerplug-in
  sed -e 's/mozilla-plugin/xulrunner-plugin/g' 
      -i configure configure.in
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-faad --enable-gtk2 --enable-wmp 
              --enable-qt --enable-rm --enable-gmp
  make LDFLAGS="" || return 1
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/${MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH}
  install -m755 mplayerplug-in*so ${startdir}/pkg/${MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH}
  install -m755 mplayerplug-in*xpt ${startdir}/pkg/${MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH}

  mkdir -p ${startdir}/pkg/etc
  install -m644 ${startdir}/src/mplayerplug-in.conf ${startdir}/pkg/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf
}
md5sums=('fb99a2efeacd5aed8b92ae0bb33c708a' 'a4b9d00153f3794feda4332662cc795e')

Now run makepkg and you'll soon have the old, working package.

Still curious why the new version does not work, though...

Birdman · 2006-09-02 11:42:07

scarecrow wrote:

It does not work here, either- dunno why. However the old 3.25-3 is working.
You can run ABS as root, pick from /var/abs/extra/multimedia/mplayer-plugin the full contents...

This path does not exist on my box. It goes as far as /var/abs/local.

Interesting that you are having the same problem. I recall a thread somewhere, I think it was related to CUPS, where it was necessary to revert to an older version and someome posted a link. I know what I will do - run a search on CUPS and find that link. I'll post it back here if successfull

Birdman · 2006-09-02 12:09:32

I found I had:

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mlpayer-plugin-3.25-3.pkg.tar.gz

I have removed the new version and added the old and everything works fine now

I am puzzled why 'locate' did not give the file path. I ran 'updatedb' but it appears that /var is not in the path. Is this normal behaviour?

sh__ · 2006-09-02 21:17:53

Birdman wrote:

I am puzzled why 'locate' did not give the file path. I ran 'updatedb' but it appears that /var is not in the path. Is this normal behaviour?

Updatedb omits the directories listed in /etc/updatedb.conf. Arch seems to omit /var/cache by default.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-09-02 10:50:04

mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

#2 2006-09-02 11:11:34

Re: mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

#3 2006-09-02 11:20:12

Re: mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

#4 2006-09-02 11:42:07

Re: mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

#5 2006-09-02 12:09:32

Re: mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

#6 2006-09-02 21:17:53

Re: mplayer-plugin stopped working [Solved]

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