mplayerplug-in stopped working after upgrading firefox

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conexion2000 · Post by **conexion2000** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:30 am

As in the subject. I have updated firefox to version 1.5.2 and to the newest stable mplayer. After that mplayerplug-in stopped working. Now it loads the movie than it shows "stopped". Is there any good substitute of this plugin?

jedsen · Post by **jedsen** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:29 am

There's the totem media player and plug-in. You could also try re-installing mplayerplug-in.

conexion2000 · Post by **conexion2000** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:05 pm

jedsen wrote:There's the totem media player and plug-in. You could also try re-installing mplayerplug-in.

I have already re-installed it. When it comes to totem, I don't like it.

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:18 pm

you can emerge the ~x86 of mplayerplugin I have the latest firefox and plugin and everything works fine. Make sure you the nsplugin in the USE flags.

conexion2000 · Post by **conexion2000** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:50 pm

It is ~x86 version of mplayerplugin.

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:23 am

does about:plugins in your firefox browser say that you have all appropriate plugins for the mulitiude of different file types?

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:13 pm

do

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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub

hansolocg · Post by **hansolocg** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:42 pm

Got the same problem here, but

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touch .mplayer/default.sub

worked nicely, thanks

Bigun · Post by **Bigun** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:31 am

*bookmarked*

Old School · Post by **Old School** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:54 am

Had the same problem, did a search for mplayerplug-in on this forum and got things fixed.
Thanks Slavo.

sek8031 · Post by **sek8031** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:31 pm

Slavo wrote:do
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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub 

Thank goodness for Gentoo forums. Finally got mplayerplug-in working and it's actually better than the WMP plugin on my windows machine (plays nhl.com videos without stopping after about a minute).

Henry78 · Post by **Henry78** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:50 pm

if $ touch .mplayer/default.sub should make mplayerplug-in to work again: here it doesn't...

* stopped firefox
* reemerged mplayerplug-in, latest version (net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.25)
* touched .mplayer/default.sub
* restarted firefox, plugin starts download/buffering, then it stopps and stays stopped (regardless what i do)

At the time i try to start the video playback, firefox spits out these warning

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(Gecko:6079): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent

I found a Gentoo Bug related to the Gtk-WARNING above.

SRC_DoD · Post by **SRC_DoD** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:40 pm

this fixed mplayer just loading the movie then stopping. now i can hear audio but i see no video displayed. any ideas?

milothurston · Post by **milothurston** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:03 pm

This problem keeps happening on and off for me, and the default.sub fix has not worked.

Mgiese · Post by **Mgiese** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:56 pm

Slavo wrote:do
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$ touch .mplayer/default.sub 

thx a lot , this was helping me too

sirfoxey · Post by **sirfoxey** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:03 am

hi all,

I am having this problem also. I have tried the default.sub as suggested about, I have followed this link http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mplayerplug-in, I have reinstalled firefox and mplayer and mplayerplug-in. I am at a loss as to where to go from here. Has anyone got any other suggestions?

I am using mplayerplug-in 3.25, mplayer dev-CVS-060415-08:32-3.4.5 and firefox 1.5.0.4

thank you in advance for any suggestions and help you might have.

Mgiese · Post by **Mgiese** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:14 pm

have you tried as root and user ?
eventually you did the "touch" hint as root where usermode is nesseccary ? *just a thought*