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

Julian Sikorski <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:13:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.mplayerplug-in
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kevin DeKorte pisze:
> 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
> 
I did remove it. The above log is without the wrapper. While it was
present, browser was not going down.

Julian

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