On Sunday 30 December 2007, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/ > >Gene Heskett: >> FWIW Tim, it is all working for me right now. Numerous clicks to >> actually get to the mplayer, and the video's aspect ratio is squeezed >> somewhat, but its working. > >Bugga! How are you doing it? Nothing I've tried has worked, beyond >being able to play the sound from a downloaded stream. Windows Vista, >Fedora 7, MSIE, Opera, Firefox, mplayer, vlc, xine, live streaming, >download the stream and try playing the file... DamnifIknow for sure Tim. This is in FF-2.0.0.11, and my plugins dir is located in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins with everything else that needs access to these plugins accessing this, the only subdir in /usr/lib/mozilla, doing so by symlinking to it, and it looks like this: [root@coyote plugins]# ls -l total 2984 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14040 Jul 6 13:55 gxineplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12720 Dec 29 2006 kaffeineplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Oct 20 21:36 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Jul 13 21:52 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19160 Dec 1 18:20 libnullplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10996 Nov 7 2006 libunixprintplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26512 Jul 12 2006 mozplugger.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 277948 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 253933 Sep 13 2005 mplayerplug-in-gmp.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 932 Sep 13 2005 mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278172 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-qt.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278236 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-rm.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278524 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Oct 24 11:59 mplayerplug-in.xpt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec 19 2006 nphelix.so -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Dec 19 2006 nphelix.xpt -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1127564 Sep 15 13:56 nppdf.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34732 Feb 12 2007 nsdejavu.so [root@coyote plugins]# As you can see, there are several more symlinks to other things like flash, java, and RealPlayer. If there is more to it than this, yelp and tell me where to find the additional info on this FC6 box. Does this help? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <Culus> Ben: Do you solumly swear to read you debian email once a day and do not permit people to think you are MIA? <Ben> Culus: i do so swear