mplayerplug-in browser plugin

[gonzalo76]

mplayerplug-in (http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/)
Embedded Video Player for Mozilla, Firebird & Firefox

What is it?

mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play digital media from websites.

Mplayer 0.92 or higher is the mimimum version of mplayer. It can be downloaded here (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html)

This plug-in gives Mozilla the ability to play videos off the net without reading the source html and getting the url manually. Videos are played embedded in the page or in a separate window depending on how the author of the webpage intended the media to be seen.

Current Version: 2.50 released 2004-Mar-18

Version 0.92 or higher of mplayer is required.


Download & Install

Fedora Core 1 Binary RPM: mplayerplug-in-2.50.fc1.i386.rpm (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-2.50-fc1.i386.rpm?use_mirror=easynews)

Download Page: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/download.html


INSTALLING

Per User:

cp mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins or make install

When you install the mplayerplug-in-2.50-fc1.i386.rpm, by default, installs mplayerplug-in.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and mplayerplug-in.xpt in /usr/lib/mozilla/components. So, if you use Firefox, just copy these two libraries into /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and /usr/lib/firefox/components folders of Firefox.

For the system:

If you use mozilla:
cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/components

If you use firebird:
cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/components

If you use firefox:
cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in.xpt /usr/lib/firefox/components

Restart mozilla


Tests
Before trying the plugin you will want to test the functionality of mplayer and gmplayer to see that you have everything working.
mplayer configuration
If you are using GNOME as your desktop environment add this line to $HOME/.mplayer/config:
ao=esd

For KDE add:
ao=arts

My $HOME/.mplayer/config looks like this:
vo=xv,x11
ao=arts,esd,oss

Plugin tests
Try the following URL
Daredevil Trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/daredevil/trailer_medium.html)
Plugger Testing Grounds (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html) the videos here should all work.

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Thanks BHHKN (http://www.tectimes.com/foros/listado.asp?codforo=4&nomforo=Linux) for this great info !!! :D
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This plugin works excellent for me and it never crashed my system.
Good Luck !

[leonya]

After installing the plugin, Mozilla (and Firefox) crashes immediately when I go to a site with a movie plugin. mplayer and gmplayer work fine . I have been using xine plugin, which works great.

If you could help determine why mplayer-plugin crashes my browser, I would greatly appreciate it. If I run mozilla from console, the only error I get before the crash is "Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkSuperWin' to `GtkWidget'".

Thanks,
Leo

P.S. I also have seen two other threads on same subject here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165373
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154180


P.P.S. I found solution to the crash - install plugin version 2.10 (the current version is 2.50). The latest version must not be compatible with FC1.

[imdeemvp]

Helix Player it an ALTERNATIVE! that is how i see the movie trailers and it does not crash my system or browser.....keep in mine that you need a fast connection like DSL or Cable, i use DSL so no problems.....

Link: http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html

this is the file's name: RealPlayer for Linux 2.x (libc6 i386) RPM


BTW: I dont use the rmp for firefox so what i did to make it work i copy and pasted the plugins from mozilla plugins folfer to the firefox plugins folder and works just fine! the plugins names are nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt and this is the path to your mozilla plugins folder: file:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
:D