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hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Hi,
A few weeks ago, mplayer-plugin was replaced by gecko-mediaplayer.
The plugin fails to load, does not show up in about:plugins.
This is using Shiretoko/firefox from extra.

The plugin did load immediatly after the upgrade, but since it has ceased to do so

Any ideas?

Last edited by hungerfish (2009-12-20 23:55:14)

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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Can you provide a link where the plugin worked "immediatly after the upgrade" and now doesn't anymore.
So I could check on my machine if it is the same for me.

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Sadly not 100% (kino.to); it is a 'moviez-streaming' site, but one that I use quite regulary. The sites they link to from there 'insist' you download and install divx-webplayer, which of course I will not
So this is divx-emulation related(some of the streamers wouldn't work with neither mplayer-plugin nor gecko-mp), however, as mentioned above, firefox wont even 'see' the plugin.
It is installed though, and I've checked the corresponding dirs and the plugins are in fact there.

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Nixie

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 51

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

I've had the same problem. The gecko-mediaplayer seemed to work fine after the upgrade from the mplayer-plugin. But now it seems to be next to useless. For the timebeing I'm using mozplugger. Which plays most anything I find, but has no controls what so ever

PS. berbae, you don't need a link. It is definitely not anything to do with a specific website or file format that hungerfish is trying to play. With mozplugger & mplayer-plugin I can drag and drop a wmv, mpg or avi right into a firefox tab and it would be played in firefox. Gecko-mediaplayer does nothing.

There is nowhere to associate files with it in Preferences/Applications either. It simply doesn't show up.

Edit:- a member called DoS posted a solution. Rename the gecko plugin files in the plugin directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by adding lib to the front of their name.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80241

Last edited by Nixie (2009-12-19 22:04:14)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

I've just looked at a meteo bulletin from the french TV (wmv format) and it worked perfectly on my machine.
It used the gecko-mediaplayer plugin inside firefox :
firefox 3.5.6-1
gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8-2
mplayer 29776-1
gnome-mplayer 0.9.8-2

ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
total 10280
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  107798 nov.  13 14:00 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  107990 nov.  13 14:00 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  107958 nov.  13 14:00 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  109622 nov.  13 14:00 gecko-mediaplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  108374 nov.  13 14:00 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
...

That's why I wanted to verify with a stream which doesn't work for hungerfish.

Last edited by berbae (2009-12-19 22:49:04)

Andy Mack

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 133

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

I use totem-plugin now and its perfect, gecko was hopless

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Can confirm, renaming the files solves the problem...this should get fixed by the package-person responsible asap!

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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Why does gecko-mediaplayer work on my machine without changing the names in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ?
Firefox recognizes the plugins without problem, they appear in about:plugins and work AFAIK on stream videos I tested.

So can you give me a link where you need these changes so that I see if it works on my machine ?

Edit after reading the following post : my machine has a 64 bit architecture with a pure Arch x86_64 installation.

Last edited by berbae (2009-12-24 16:11:20)

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: Gecko-media-player not working[SOLVED]

Hmm, well I've a second machine which I tried this with, and there, the plugin works correctly(no renaming). I installed gecko-mediaplayer 'freshly', no mplayer-plugin installed beforehand. This machine is 32bit, the other, 64bit. So I'm guessing this is 'arch'-related somehow, compile/linkage-error or something...

Last edited by hungerfish (2009-12-24 15:12:09)

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