Any suggestion how to replace www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer

d2_racing

Hi everyone, I would like to remove firefox and all the deps from xulrunner.

Right now, I use www-client/chromium, but I don't know what can replace gecko-mediaplayer or the old mplayerplug-in ?

Any suggestion ?

Thanks

yngwin · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:50 pm Post subject:

I don't think there is any multimedia plugin for browsers that does not use xulrunner.
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d2_racing · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:58 pm Post subject:

Ok then, but xulrunner is pretty long to compile and actually, I tought that xulrunner was use only with mozilla products.

I was wrong

Joseph K. · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:39 am Post subject:

I was just about to post a new thread on this exact topic, so I'll hijack yours instead.

What is the story with the xulrunner dependency? It seems like an awfully big dependency just for a plugin to run in Chromium, considering that for example the Java plugin does not require it. Is there any possibility that those plugins (gecko-mediaplayer and vlc) could be redesigned so that xulrunner is an optional dependency? Or does xulrunner actually provide important services that they can't do without or get from Chromium? Thanks in advance to whomever can actually answer these questions!

Hypnos · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:17 am Post subject:

The XFCE media player, parole, provides an nsplugin, but does not depend on xulrunner.

Too bad I never got it to work. Also, it seems that the newest ebuild in Portage does not support building it, though the older versions do.
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Gusar · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:26 am Post subject:

From what I know, it's just a compile-time dependency. So you don't actually need to keep xulrunner around after gecko-mediaplayer is compiled. If the ebuild has xulrunner as run-time dependency, that's a mistake.

Maybe it'd be possible to compile gecko-mediaplayer by downloading the xulrunner sdk and then pointing the gecko-mediaplayer build system towards that. That way you avoid the lengthy xulrunner compile times.

Hypnos · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:28 am Post subject:

Indeed, that's how Parole does it -- the source just has a copy of the xulrunner header files.
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Joseph K. · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:12 am Post subject:

Very interesting, thank you! I shall open a bug report now.