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@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?
