Re: gecko-mediaplayer does not play files opening in a new window

Kevin DeKorte <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:11:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.mplayerplug-in
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Kevin DeKorte pisze:
>> Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>> Kevin DeKorte pisze:
>>>> Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> looks like I have found another problem with gecko-mediaplayer. It does
>>>>> not play files which are opened in firefox in new tab/window. It's easy
>>>>> to reproduce.
>>>>> 1. Go to http://service.real.com/realplayer/test/
>>>>> 2. Click any of the clips
>>>>> New tab/window will open, but the plugin will not initialise.
>>>>> Mplayerplug-in handles such cases just fine.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Julian
>>>> Mplayer itself does not play any of these files for me. It tells me the
>>>> file is not found. So I think the site is broken.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Bad example. Try this:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schumacher
>>> and click the pronunciation link.
>>> Julian
>> Works for me.... no need to click on anything to make that file play.
>>
>> Kevin
> Strange. I was using nspluginwrapper, so I didn't notice that before,
> but looks like the file mentioned above brings the browser down:
> 
> [jsikorski@snowball ~]$ firefox --verbose
> which: no wxdfast in
> (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jsikorski/bin)
> which: no gwget in
> (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jsikorski/bin)
> which: no aria in
> (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jsikorski/bin)
> DBUS connection created
> Listening to path /control/14140
> 
> That's all that got logged to the console. Could you please provide some
> directions how to debug the issue further?
> 
> Julian

Julian,

The first thing I would do would be to remove nspluginwrapper. It is not
needed for gecko-mediaplayer. If you are on a 64bit system,
gecko-mediaplayer should be able to be compiled and run in 64bit mode.

Kevin

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