gecko-mediaplayer - the continuing saga?

Knute Johnson linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Wed Jun 4 02:49:14 UTC 2008


Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:22 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:09 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Mauriat wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Knute Johnson
>>>>>> <linux at www.knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I did a clean install of F9 on my old laptop.  I installed 
>>>>>>> gecko-mediaplayer
>>>>>>> and it still doesn't play what the old mplayerplug-in used to 
>>>>>>> play.  In
>>>>>>> addition it blows up firefox.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you provide some specific test cases so others can try to 
>>>>>> reproduce?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Mauriat
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I should have thought of that.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.kfi640.com/cc-common/ondemand/faq/
>>>>>
>>>>> On the left side in the white area, click on "Launch Classic Player."
>>>> ----
>>>> that link works for me (the stream) but I can't say for certain that it
>>>> was gecko-mediaplayer handling it...how would I know?
>>>>
>>>> I do know that I installed a bunch of xine stuff per earlier
>>>> recommendations on the list...
>>>>
>>>> # rpm -qa|grep xine
>>>> xine-lib-arts-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-0.99.5-1.lvn8.i386
>>>> totem-xine-2.23.2-2.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-lib-extras-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.12-1.lvn9.i386
>>>> gxine-mozplugin-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
>>>> gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-lib-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
>>>> xine-plugin-1.0.1-2.fc9.i386
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>> Craig:
>>>
>>> Do you have gecko-mediaplayer installed?
>> ----
>> yes...
>>
>> # rpm -q gecko-mediaplayer
>> gecko-mediaplayer-0.6.2-1.lvn9.i386
>>
>> using kde & pulseaudio
>>
>> Craig
>>
> 
> I'm using Gnome here.  It (KFI) wouldn't play for me.  (Flash media 
> worked fine tho from other sites)  *BUT*, if I stopped firefox and 
> restarted it, KFI worked right away for me.  Yes, I have 
> gecko-mediaplayer installed as well.  Something about the way it works 
> prevents it from starting after a "few" times.  I wish I could be more 
> specific.  Every time it fails for me, restarting firefox seems to clear 
> it up for a while.

I've seen that same behavior when using both Windows and Linux F8.  I 
don't know what causes that.

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Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com




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