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venky80

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gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Is there an alternative for gecko-mediaplayer firefox plugin for kde users?
mplayer-plugin is gone!

Last edited by venky80 (2009-11-14 02:38:12)

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skottish

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

You can try mozplugger. It can have a bit of set up, but it works at least as well as mplayer-plugin (although different levels of success with the default config).

mcsaba77

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From: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Registered: 2009-09-30

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

I'd be happy if we could have mplayer-plugin back. It worked perfectly well for me, until someone else decided that it didn't, and pulled it without any warning, telling me to "upgrade" to gecko-player. (I thought Arch was different from Kubuntu).  Any chance someone still has the PKGBuild? Or any chance to "vote" it back or something?

eldarion

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Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Take a look at this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=655744

I don't like having to use gnome-mplayer on my KDE4 build, but mplayer-plugin is no longer an active project.

xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

Posts: 292

Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

"Someone else" is the author of mplayer-plugin and gecko-mediaplayer[1], and arch usually do not keep superseded software in the repos. If you really insist on mplayer-plugin, you can upload it to the AUR though. The PKGBUILD is in the subversion repository. But for your information, gnome-mplayer actually does not depend on gnome at all.

[1] http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2007/02/mp … gecko.html

mcsaba77

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

I apologize for my previous post, i didn't mean to be sarcastic... Well, actually I did, but it was wrong, sorry.

Will try to find mplayer-plugin PKGBUILD in subversion, for me it worked just as well as gecko-mediaplayer, without the gnome-mplayer dependency

xduugu

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … 00&isdir=1

but it does not compile for me anymore, at least without additional patches. That may be the reason why they finally decided to remove mplayer-plugin in favor of gecko-mediaplayer.

edit: Maybe the old package still works for you: http://arm.kh.nu/search/index.php?a=32& … ommunity=1

Last edited by xduugu (2009-11-14 17:46:53)

Adler

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-06-13

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

I just kept the old one and added gecko-mediaplayer to pacman.conf IgnorePkg... I don't feel like being bothered by that when mplayer-plugin is working for me.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Hi

I'm giving mozplugger a try with opera.
I cannot get it running. Is there a sane and easy howto somewhere?

skottish

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Hi

I'm giving mozplugger a try with opera.
I cannot get it running. Is there a sane and easy howto somewhere?

I can't get it to work with webkit either. I'm just getting blank, gray windows.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Yes , same here with arora.

PS: @skottish
could you pleas post your /etc/mozpluggerrc

Last edited by DonVla (2009-11-14 18:48:54)

skottish

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

I've been working on this this morning, so I can't guarantee that it's not broken. I removed nearly all comments to try to keep it brief:

changequote([,])

define(MP_CMD,[mplayer $1 </dev/null])

define(MP_EMBED,[embed noisy ignore_errors: MP_CMD(-xy $width -wid $window $1)])

define(MP_NOEMBED,[noembed noisy ignore_errors maxaspect swallow(MPlayer): MP_CMD($1)])

define(MP_VIDEO_STREAM,[stream MP_EMBED($1 "$file")
    stream MP_NOEMBED($1 "$file")])

define(MP_VIDEO_PLAYLIST, [fmatch($1) MP_EMBED(-playlist "$file")
                       fmatch($1) MP_NOEMBED(-playlist "$file")])

# Special case for Quicktime
define(MP_LINKS,[stream links noisy ignore_errors: MP_CMD($1)])

define(MP_AUDIO,[mplayer $1 </dev/null])

define(MP_AUDIO_STREAM,[controls stream noisy ignore_errors: mplayer $1 "$file" </dev/null])

###################
### Video       ###
###################

video/mpeg:mpeg,mpg,mpe:MPEG animation
video/x-mpeg:mpeg,mpg,mpe:MPEG animation
video/x-mpeg2:mpv2,mp2ve:MPEG2 animation
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM()

video/mp4:mp4:MPEG4 animation
video/msvideo:avi:AVI animation
video/x-msvideo:avi:AVI animation
video/fli:fli,flc:FLI animation
video/x-fli:fli,flc:FLI animation
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM()

application/x-mplayer2:*:Windows Media video
video/x-ms-asf:asf,asx:Windows Media video
video/x-ms-wm:wm:Windows Media video
video/x-ms-wmv:wmv:Windows Media video
video/x-ms-wvx:wvx:Windows Media video
video/x-ms-asf-plugin:*:Window Media video
        MP_VIDEO_PLAYLIST(%.asx)
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM()

application/asx:asx:Windows Media video
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM(-playlist)

application/x-quicktimeplayer:mov:Quicktime animation
image/x-macpaint:pntg,mov:Quicktime animation
video/quicktime:mov,qt:Quicktime animation
video/x-quicktime:mov,qt:Quicktime animation
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM()

video/x-theora:ogg:OGG stream with video
video/theora:ogg:OGG stream with video
video/ogg:ogg:OGG stream with video
video/x-ogg:ogm,ogv:OGG stream with video
    MP_VIDEO_STREAM()

video/dl:dl:DL animation
video/x-dl:dl:DL animation
video/sgi-movie:movie,movi,mv:SGI animation
video/x-sgi-movie:movie,movi,mv:SGI animation
video/anim:iff,anim5,anim3,anim7:IFF animation
video/x-anim:iff,anim5,anim3,anim7:IFF animation

##################
### Audio      ###
##################

audio/mid:midi,mid:MIDI audio file
audio/x-mid:midi,mid:MIDI audio file
audio/midi:midi,mid:MIDI audio file
audio/x-midi:midi,mid:MIDI audio file
    controls noisy stream: timidity -Od "$file"
    controls: playmidi "$file"

audio/mod:mod:Soundracker audio Module
audio/x-mod:mod:Soundracker audio Module
   MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/mp3:mp3:MPEG audio
audio/x-mp3:mp3:MPEG audio
audio/mpeg2:mp2:MPEG audio
audio/x-mpeg2:mp2:MPEG audio
audio/mpeg3:mp3:MPEG audio
audio/x-mpeg3:mp3:MPEG audio
audio/mpeg:mpa,abs,mpega:MPEG audio
audio/x-mpeg:mpa,abs,mpega:MPEG audio
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/mpeg-url:m3u:MPEG music resource locator
audio/x-mpeg-url:m3u:MPEG music resource locator
audio/mpegurl:m3u:MPEG music resource locator
audio/x-mpegurl:m3u:MPEG music resource locator
audio/x-scpls:pls:Shoutcast Playlists

audio/x-ogg:ogg:OGG audio
application/x-ogg:ogg:OGG audio
application/ogg:ogg:OGG audio
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/x-flac:flac:FLAC audio
application/x-flac:flac:FLAC audio
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/x-sidtune:sid,psid:Commodore 64 Audio
audio/sidtune:sid,psid:Commodore 64 Audio
audio/psid:psid,sid:Commodore 64 Audio
audio/x-psid:psid,sid:Commodore 64 Audio
   MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/basic:au,snd:Basic audio file
audio/x-basic:au,snd:Basic audio file
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/wav:wav:Microsoft wave file
audio/x-wav:wav:Microsoft wave file
audio/x-pn-wav:wav:Microsoft wave file
audio/x-pn-windows-acm:wav:Microsoft wave file
   MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin:rpm:RealPlayer Plugin Metafile
audio/x-pn-realaudio:ra,rm,ram:Realaudio-plugin resource locator
audio/x-realaudio:ra,rm,ram:RealAudio file
application/vnd.rn-realmedia:rm:RealMedia file
application/smil:smi:RealPlayer
audio/vnd.rn-realaudio:ra,ram:RealAudio file
audio/vnd.rn-realvideo:rv:RealVideo file
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

audio/x-ms-wax:wax:Windows Media Audio
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM(-playlist-playlist))

audio/x-ms-wma:wma:Windows Media Audio
    MP_AUDIO_STREAM()

bleichmittel

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 26

Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

A binary for the old mplayer-plugin is in the Arch Rollback Machine http://arm.kh.nu/search

For i686 you could do this:

sudo pacman -U http://arm.kh.nu/extra/os/i686/mplayer-plugin-3.55-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

The nicest thing of course would be to have a kde mplayer-plugin (i. e. based on kmplayer or kplayer), because mplayer-plugin still depends on gtk. vlc-plugin didn't work with opera for me. It didn't have an interface, too.

venky80

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

This sucks for KDE users!

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jelly

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

This sucks for KDE users!

Get Mozplugger or program something in QT

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

well, firefox itself uses gtk2 anyway, so gnome-mplayer isn't exactly going to pull in a lot of extra deps...

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bleichmittel

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 26

Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

That's right, but you could want to use the plugin in Opera/Konqueror/Arora, too.

To summarize possible solutions:
Using gecko-mediaplayer (and have to install gnome-mplayer and gtk)
Using the old mplayer-plugin (as mentioned above, uses/depends on gtk too)
Using mozplugger (not sure how good this works, especially with other browsers than firefox)
Using vlc-plugin (no gtk/gnome-dependencies, but afaik no interface and at least for me it doesn't work with firefox)

As I couldn't get vlc-plugin to work with opera, I'll stick with the old mplayer-plugin. But I'll probably upgrade to gecko-mediaplayer soon, as the only I additional dependency for me would be gnome-mplayer. What I don't know yet is how good gecko-mediaplayer works with Opera.

Dheart

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Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

It works quite well with opera, and the gnome-mplayer doesn't pull a ton of dependency so if you have good qtcurve or gtk-qt-engine set up, you shouldn't find any troubles (Besides having to see the ugly "gnome" from gnome-mplayer that stands out during updates with pacman)

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Rasi

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

well i dont know how it works for you, but gnome-mplayer only plays videos in firefox for me. In all other browsers it says "caching" and then does nothing

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trusktr

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

gecko-mediaplayer (gnome-mplayer) only works in epiphany and firefox for me, but Google Chrome acts like there is no plugin.

Anyone else have this issue?

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Knives

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Registered: 2008-12-26

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

I don´t see the advantage of use mplayer-plugin instead of gecko-mediaplayer:

- mplayer-plugin uses gtk too;
- gecko-mediaplayer + gnome-mplayer occupes less space than just mplayer-plugin.

trusktr

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

If only it worked in Chrome!

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kikinovak

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Re: gecko-mediaplayer alternative for kde?

Quick & dirty solution for using gecko-mediaplayer with KDE:

# pacman -S kmplayer gecko-mediaplayer
# echo "NoDisplay=true" >> /usr/share/applications/gnome-mplayer.desktop

That simple

Last edited by kikinovak (2011-01-12 13:16:02)

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