mplayer plugin for mozilla in fc1

[Scott Talbot]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:23, Clint wrote:
> I'm not able to view movies using mplayer's plugin in Mozilla. I am 
> however, able to view them off-line using mplayer. Here's what I've done:
> 
> dowloaded the source mplayerplug-in-1.0pre2.tar.gz
> logged in as root
> tar -xzvf mplayerplug-in-1.0pre2.tar.gz
> cd mplayerplug-in
> ./configure
> make
> cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> restarted mozilla
> 
> I did verify that mplayerplug-in.so is in the plugins directory:
> 
> [clint at localhost plugins]$ ls
> libflashplayer.so     mozplugger.so      raclass.zip
> libjavaplugin_oji.so  mplayerplug-in.so  rpnp.so
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Mozilla shows that it has the mplayer plugin when I open the About 
> Plugins in Mozilla:
> 
> mplayerplug-in v1.0pre2 handles QuickTime Windows Media Player Plugin
> 
>      File name: mplayerplug-in.so
>      Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime and Windows Media Player streams 
> using mplayer
> 
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> video/quicktime 	Quicktime 	mov 	Yes
> video/x-quicktime 	Quicktime 	mov 	Yes
> video/quicktime 	Quicktime 	mp4 	Yes
> [...many more lines deleted...]
> 
> but when I visit http://www.apple.com/trailers/ to try to view any of 
> the Quicktime trailers, a white box opens and a text message says:
> 
> mplayerplug-in
> Playing http://a772.g.akamai.net/(blah blah blah)
> 
> and the video doesn't ever start.
> 
> This is on a FC1 machine upgraded from RH9.
> 
	This may be a dumb question, but as I haven't seen the codecs on the
freshrpms - did you download them from mplayer.hu?