gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

TioDuke · 2010-02-09 14:45:41

Hi,

Did anyone experience this problem with gecko-mediaplayer? Since I upgraded to the 0.9.9 version I have not been able to watch videos from neither Firefox, Chromium nor Opera. I tested gnome-mplayer separately and it seems to be working fine.

Is there some configuration that I need to change to make it work? Any workarounds?

For the time being I reverted to the previous version of both pakages (gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer) and it is working fine.

I tried running Firefox from the console but no messages are displayed?

Thanks in advance.

berbae · 2010-02-09 21:27:23

I had that issue also with gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.
It is known upstream see http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-me … 385b930362
and apparently solved with the upcoming 0.9.9.1 release.
I have tested the svn 0.9.9.1 version and it seems to work on my machine.
Here is a PKGBUILD to make the package :

pkgname=gecko-mediaplayer
pkgver=0.9.9.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Browser plugin that uses gnome-mplayer to play media in a web browser"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/"
license=('GPL')
depends=("gnome-mplayer>=0.9.9" 'dbus-glib')
makedepends=('xulrunner' 'pkgconfig' 'subversion')
replaces=('mplayer-plugin')

build() {
    cd ${srcdir}
    svn checkout http://gecko-mediaplayer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gecko-mediaplayer-read-only
    cd gecko-mediaplayer-read-only

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --without-gconf
    make || return 1
}

package() {
    cd ${srcdir}/gecko-mediaplayer-read-only

    make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
}

Last edited by berbae (2010-02-09 21:28:53)

delmonico · 2010-02-15 11:14:46

For me, firefox crashes on *all* embedded media with 0.9.8, 0.9.9 and this svn-0.9.9.1
Might be related to the fact that I have to use a vesa driver on this netbook because of its stupid poulsbo chipset...

Last edited by delmonico (2010-02-15 11:25:21)

berbae · 2010-02-15 22:26:24

Do you have log messages after the firefox crashes ?
Try to get the url of the stream you want to see, and try to play it directly in gnome-mplayer.
Tell if it works outside of firefox/gecko-mediaplayer.

TioDuke · 2010-02-24 16:18:59

I have tried gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.1: it solved the issues I had with Firefox but I was still unable to make it work on Chromium and Opera.

So today I opened a bug report on gecko-mediaplayer bugzilla: http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediapla … tail?id=88

The good news is that developer is already working on it and the he proposed a patch to solve the issue. I will test it back and report.

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#1 2010-02-09 14:45:41

gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

#2 2010-02-09 21:27:23

Re: gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

#3 2010-02-15 11:14:46

Re: gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

#4 2010-02-15 22:26:24

Re: gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

#5 2010-02-24 16:18:59

Re: gecko-mediaplayer not working after 0.9.8 -> 0.9.9 upgrade

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