Stream video in Opera/Firefox-bin on AMD64 (mplayerplug-in)

[blossa]

I am trying to get this working in Opera...

Ok, I get no errors staring Opera 9.00. When I go to a homepage with a movie, the browser buffers the movie but then it just stops. It does not crash Opera or something, it only stops.

When doing the 'emerge stuff' from first post in this thread i looks like I got v.3.21 instead because the only mplayerplug-in file I have in /usr/portage/distfiles is version 3.21.

So, do I have to unmask v.3.25 or will that solve nothing? Or should I go with even newer versions like 3.30 or 3.31? Or, maybe, maybe there is another solution ot there now?

Any other suggestion?

Thanks in advance.
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[Jarda]

Hi, thanks for the howto!

In firefox-bin, this works fine for me. Except, I can't turn the video to fullscreen. That's why i tried to configure the plugin with

[rwf]

Stadard disclaimer: I don't run an AMD64 system -- strictly x86 architecture.

• The modifications to np_entry.cpp are only needed if you are running Opera 8.54. If you have Opera 9.mumble, then the mods
  

  Code:

  // if(aNPNFuncs->size < sizeof(NPNetscapeFuncs)) //   return NPERR_INVALID_FUNCTABLE_ERROR;

  
  are not needed.
  

• Most people have more success w/ mplayerplug-in 3.21 vs newer versions of mplayerplug-in.
  
• Some sites just don't work i.e. the video/audio crap at http://news.yahoo.com. They don't work for me with either Opera of Firefox.
  
• If you don't get Opera and Mplayerplug-in to work, it's always a good idea to post the url where it doesn't work.
  
• Opera gives a lot of debugging information if you set the environment variable OPERA_PLUGINWRAPPER_DEBUG, possible debugging values are 0 to 20. I normally set to 10.
  
• --enable-x versus --enable-gtk1 or --enable-gtk2. Opera and mplayerplug-in will not work if enable-{gtk1,gtk2}, if mplayerplug-in is compiled with these options. Clearly firefox needs gtk. This means you need two (2) binaries of mplayerplug-in, one that firefox uses and another that Opera finds.
  
• This thread seems to indicate that someone had 'some' success with a gtk enabled version of mplayerplug-in and Opera http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=154160
  
• The above link was posted by somebody on a x86 system, not AMD64. I never bothered to try it out, since I don't think much of mplayerplug-in.
  
• The no controls issue. You won't get any controls when mplayerplug-in is compiled with --enable-x. You can try setting the noembedded option in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf to 1. That way you might be able to use the keyboard to control mplayer (see man mplayer).
  
• The undefined symbol: pthread_create issue. I also get the error when using mplayerplug-in version 3.31. pthread_create is in libpthread.so so I preloaded this library (LD_PRELOAD set to /lib/libpthread.so.0). Not sure what's going on, but since I'm in the middle of update to gcc-4.1.1 and glibc-2.4, probably a week to finish emerge -ave system and world, I'm not too concerned.
  
• If you use the LD_PRELOAD trick, make sure you load the 32-bit library.
  
• You can always get architecture of a .so library by using
  

[Disparu]

this guide has really been a day maker and life saver. i thank you soooooo much!!!!

[float-]

a little off topic, sorry..
im trying to watch nasa tv in mplayer (-bin).

as http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
just gave me a screen with buffering 0%, then immediately stops.

i thought this might not be a mplayerplug-in error, so i tried

mplayer-bin rtsp://a1914.l1857058329.c18570.g.lq.akamaistream.net/D/1914/18570/v0001/reflector:52211

but got the following result

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It played for me using the vlc plugin w/ Opera 9.10-507(.1)

It appears to be an application/x-mplayer2 file type.

Note: I run x86 not AMD 64