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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:46 am    Post subject: [Howto, sortof] How I got mplayerplug-in working with opera Reply with quote

It took me a couple of hours of eager googling and tinkering to succeed at getting mplayerplug-in working with opera, but hopefully it will help you getting there faster.

Initially I had the following emerged:

Code:
     www-client/opera-8.50
      net-www/mplayerplug-in-2.80
      www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.42
      net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.12-r1


Then I went to the mplayerplug-in sourcecode...

Code:
#cd /urs/portage/distfiles
#ls mplayerplug-in*
mplayerplug-in-2.80.tar.gz


If you at this point can't seem to find the tar-file, do an "emerge mplayerplug-in -avf" to fetch the sources.

Code:
#tar -xzvf mplayerplug-in-2.80.tar.gz
#cd mplayerplug-in/plugingate
#vim np_entry.cpp


Look up lines 108 and 109 - the ones looking like this:

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


These lines more or less tell the plug-in to not work unless the browser is of type mozilla. You comment them by inserting // in front of each line:

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


It's time to make the new, modified plugin. Exit your editor, and exit the directory:

Code:
#cd ..
#./configure --enable-x --with-gecko-sdk=/usr/lib/gecko-sdk
#make
...
#cp mplayerplug-in.so /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugin/
#ln -s /usr/lib/gecko-sdk/lib/libxpcom.so /usr/lib/


From terminal run a:

Code:
$opera -debugplugin
...
opera: [plugin failed ] /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, libnspr4.so: ...
...

$locate libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/gecko-sdk/lib/libnspr4.so


We have found the file we needed, Next we symlink to somewhere opera will find it:

Code:
#ln -s /usr/lib/gecko-sdk/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/


Again I did a:

Code:
$opera -debugplugin


This time opera ended up not finding libplds4.so, so I repeated my previous procedure:

Code:
ln -s /usr/lib/gecko-sdk/lib/libplds4.so /usr/lib


This time it worked. :) And I hope it does for you all!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice post -- thanks for summarizing everything. Your sequence also works w/ mplayerplug-in-3.11 (one of the Opera developers/testers confirmed this on the opera.linux newsgroup).
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:34 pm    Post subject: whoooaaa Reply with quote

thanx man, this was killing me for weeks ;)

nice and it workd with mplayerplug-in 3.15 also
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have modified the source and compiled Mplayer plugin. I have made all that Sloden explains. Root can now play videos of Apple trailers in Opera. But a normal user cannot play video. I have looked for permissions of libraries, but there are all executable for normal users.

Does anybody see where my problem is?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello, I am not a gentoo user yet (I use Ubuntu) but I hope it does not matter. I tried to follow this tutorial, but it somehow fails. I compiled the plugins with sdk 1.7 using gtk2, mplayerplugins3.17 (could this be the problem, should I use the --enable-x option instead - just tried that and it does not work either), removed lines that shoul be removed. It ocmpiled, I moved them to /usr/lib/opera/plugins/ started opera with -debugplugin option, but it did not say anything, so I went to preferences>advanced>content>plugin, hit the find new plugins and opera found all the mplayer plugins and they asociated with many filetypes. However, when I tried to watch same trailers on www.apple.com/trailers, it did not work. There is just a big white rectangle insted of the trailer (with no text "plugin-content" like when no plugins were installed). I do not have mplayer installed, but it should not be a problem, I hope?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The plugin invokes mplayer to show/play the video. Install mplayer on your system.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hm, I installed mplayer and it still did not work, so I recompiled mplayer and also installed Merlin - technical preview for Opera 9.0 and it started to work, to my surprise. But I do not know if it is related to Merlin or recompilation of mplayer.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:41 pm    Post subject: Almost Reply with quote

I tried the fix, but I get the following:

opera: [plugin failed ] /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I checked, and /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so is a valid file, so it sounds like the classic "That file is in 64 bits and I don't want to deal with it!" complaint. Any ideas on how to fix this? I'd love an mplayerplug-in-bin, but that doesn't seem to be happening...

(Pardon if this should be in the amd64 forum. As it's mostly related to this thread, I figured it would make more sense here. I'll move it if need be.)
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I have seen that 3.15 version of MPlayerplug-in is ready for Opera. No more need to link libraries in /usr/lib. But for me, users can still not play videos.

If you install Mplayerplug-in 3.15, don't forget to remove /o/opt/opera/lib/opera/plugin/mplayerplug-in.so before emerging, or you could end with segmentation fault when viewing videos with Opera.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for that guide :)
it worked like a charm:)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks a lot sloden :)

thanks to your post, i can finally play videos browsing with opera ;)

regards.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:14 am    Post subject: Re: Almost Reply with quote

Dirkson wrote:
I tried the fix, but I get the following:

opera: [plugin failed ] /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I checked, and /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so is a valid file, so it sounds like the classic "That file is in 64 bits and I don't want to deal with it!" complaint. Any ideas on how to fix this? I'd love an mplayerplug-in-bin, but that doesn't seem to be happening...

(Pardon if this should be in the amd64 forum. As it's mostly related to this thread, I figured it would make more sense here. I'll move it if need be.)


Ditto. amd64 here also. path is correct, file is there. opera won't use it.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Almost Reply with quote

gyaresu wrote:

Ditto. amd64 here also. path is correct, file is there. opera won't use it.


When you manually compiled it, what were your CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS setting? I suspect it was compiled for your default system.

Code:

~% objdump -a /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so

/opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:     file format elf32-i386
/opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so


will tell ya.

Maybe try setting CFLAGS (and CXXFLAGS) to -march=i386 when you compile it.

Just a guess.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For AMD64 you need to download the gecko-sdk manualy and extract it to /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib and then compile the plugin using this command

Code:

./configure --enable-x --with-gecko-sdk=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/gecko-sdk/ --enable-x86_64 --x-libraries=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib32/
make       


After that you can follow the original post and it should work.
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

brilliant! Thanks a lot!
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