mplayer and firefox on amd64

missing orgone · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 27

ok, i've been trying all day to get an mplayer plugin working on my system, i've read many threads, but have not found any answers, so whats the word, is it possibe to plug mplayer into firefox with amd64? i've tried installing mplayer, with mplayerplug-in , and mplayer-bin, both mplayer and mplayer-bin work fine for me, but there's no 32 bit plugin that i know of. mplayer sounds like a great program, how can i use it with a browser? What media player is good that will easily work with firefox?

sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

I had the same ploblem as you. Luckily there is a REALLY EASY solution. The media connectivity plugin for firefox(Just go to firefox extensions page and search for connectivity). It will play media files in web pages outside of firefox in a stand-alone player (mplayer, mplayer-bin, xine, whatever...) and the whole 32, 64 bit thing doesn't matter *shakes fist at macromedia*. I configure mine to play Real Media, Windows Media, and Quicktime in mplayer-bin. If you want to add a switch like -fs (for fullscreen), click Expert Mode and put the switch in the arguments field in front of %f (need a space). Now you can watch all that media (and flash if you're using mozilla-firefox-bin) AND you can make the window any size you want (not that tiny window in the web page)

yinkoshaumer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 139

My solution was to the following

F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

so if i understand you right your saying the mplayerplug-in is a 64-bit program only in amd64? but does that mean embeded sounds on web pages won't work in-firefox but only with external players?
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Eskarel · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: What he's actually saying

is that since mplayerplug-in is not a binary, it is 64 bit if you compile it that way, exactly the same way as the compiled version of mplayer. It will play sounds and video in web applications just fine, but not those which require the 32 bit odec libraries. This is just the way things are at the moment, not much you can do about it, the extension he was referring to was a workaround until this is resolved(probably when vista comes out).

ReDirEct__ · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

Hi... i made an ebuild that download the binary version of mplayeplug-in... if you are intersted it's here (right click and save). It's my first ebuild but it work for me. The ebuild only copy the binary files in /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins and make an hardlink in /usr/bin/ to mplayer-bin. If you already have 64bit mplayer, it will be used instead but you can't view vmw videos, hope you like it

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ReDirEct__ · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject:

i'm sorry but the direct linking to my hosted files don't work... try to go here (my weblog) then, at bottom of the post, you will see the download section... download the ebuild from there... bye

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20630

Thanks ReDirEct__. It'd be really nice to have that filed at bugs.gentoo.org.

EDIT: Looks like it is. For all the other English only readers... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107922
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