The plugin for Mplayer seems to be replaced by a program called gecko-mediaplayer. I did not find a compiled version, so I had to compile it myself. But once installed it made my Firefox crash. Anyone a better experience with this program?
OpenSUSE 11.4, KDE 4.6, Firefox 6.0.2, Intel Dualcore T5600 (1.83 GHz) in HP Pavilion laptop
Hi
Use the packman version;
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I used to use this but have switched to the totem plugin, even in kde.
FYI: I found issues if you install gecko-mediaplayer and totem plugin in gnome3, I have to remove gecko. But in gnome2 it’s fine with both
I used to use this but have switched to the totem plugin, even in kde.
That’s interesting Carl. What advantages does the totem plugin offer? Or is it just because of the fact that you have both the Gnome and KDE4 DE’s installed, and gecko-mediaplayer is not happy side-by-side with the totem plugin?
Totem plugin just works.
The base line test is the apple movie trailers
Plain kde and no Totem plugin is a real struggle to get working. Hence my own Oneclick (see sig)
My comment about GeckoMP was an observation of experience where a 11.4 Gnome2 > Upgraded to Gnome3, that had GeckoMP installed. I found it (Totem-Plugin) would not play apple movie trailers (indeed the plugin didn’t really work at all). But remove GeckoMP and all was well.
But I think this only affects 11.4 G2 upgraded to G3
I’m waiting for Milestone 6 to test that (So far I haven’t been able to do much on the Milestones)
My comment about GeckoMP was an observation of experience where a 11.4 Gnome2 > Upgraded to Gnome3, that had GeckoMP installed. I found it (Totem-Plugin) would not play apple movie trailers (indeed the plugin didn’t really work at all). But remove GeckoMP and all was well.
But I think this only affects 11.4 G2 upgraded to G3
I’m waiting for Milestone 6 to test that (So far I haven’t been able to do much on the Milestones)
Thanks for the explanation. 
Thanks for the hint! It works, but I had to change the handling of Quicktime media in the preferences. It still stood on “ask”. And I wonder why this did not show up in the OBS list or in Google. There were probably to may references to discussion texts.
The movies on Apple do not work because they pass a display list instead of directly the url of the movie and the Gnome player (or Mplayer) does not recognize this. The Totem plugin probably does.
FWIW, the gecko-mediaplayer from home:RedDwarf works with Apple movie trailers.
I don’t have time to update the Packman package right now. You could ask somebody else in IRC…
Thanks for that info RedDwarf
I tried the gecko-mediaplayer from home:RedDwarf. It crashed Firefox when I tried to view a trailer at iTunes Movie Trailers. Firefox then kept crashing when I tried to restart it, until I downgraded to the Packman version of gecko-mediaplayer.
I am on openSUSE 11.4, KDE 4.6, Firefox 6.0.2.
Which is why I use totem-browserplugin
With only that info my guess is gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.4 requires gnome-mplayer 1.0.4 (not documented anywhere that I know) and you only updated gecko-mediaplayer, not gnome-mplayer.
You’re right, I hadn’t. I did now, and it doesn’t crash Firefox, but the Apple trailers still don’t work–the player pops up, but nothing plays.
IIRC with gecko-mediaplayer
You may need other libs such as:
pv
x264
You should of course have libquicktime0 too
I got it working, though I’m not entirely sure what fixed it. I updated every package related to multimedia that I had from Packman, and that did include a newer libquicktime0. However, I also noticed that I had three versions of libx264 (114, 115, and 116) installed, so I uninstalled the two older ones. I have a feeling deleting conflicting libraries was the real solution, but can’t be sure because I did everything at once. In any case, Apple trailers now work fine for me.
That’s great news. Well done!