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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > I searched for mplayerplug-in and found only that one
> > version.  Perhaps it should be spelled differently.
>
> http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=mplayerplug-in&ver=

I found it this time.  Why did you choose 3.31 for 10.2 and not 3.40 for 
11.0?  3.3.31 installs into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.  A previous version 
2.75 installs to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins.  How did you 'install' 3.31 
package?

I could right click on the ad at that page and tell Firefox not to 
download images from that site and I see no ads (but I still see text ads 
with Seamonkey when told to accept only images from that original site). 
Have you tried an ad-block plugin, which Seamonkey is supposed to work 
with too?

> > Firefox does have the advantage here.
> > (Is there some way to remove the icons in the toolbars?).
>
> As I said before, right-click on icon and edit
> the resultant config screen.
Not intuitive but I could choose small icons or no icons (text).

> > How do I use the plugin after copying the two files
> > to /plugins and /components?
>
> Restart Firefox, then enter about:plugins

I don't see any new plugins.  I did not install the package, just copied 
the two files to /firefox*/plugins and components.  The install package
would have put them into a mozilla directory (along with lots of 
documentation).  The two default plugins are in /firefox*/.  What am I 
missing?  How does a plugin work - does it access mplayer or substitute 
for it?

> > mplayer directly will not play KOSU Oklahoma
> > mms://kwms.kosu.okstate.edu/Live
> > It is missing some codec.
>
> I get a connection timeout.  Nothing to do with codec.
Maybe both.  It told me it needed a codec.

> > mplayer does not seem to handle smil (Lyric radio Ireland)
>
> That smil file is a playlist file.  The actual URL is:
> rtsp://live2.rte.ie/redundant/1920.ra
How do you access that URL with firefox?

> > It must have taken you longer to write this script
> > than I spent compiling!
>
> It took around half an hour to write and debug the script.
> Writing bash scripts is fun.  Compiling complicated
> source code is boring (at best) or extremely frustrating.
Mplayer compiled okay except not everything worked.  It was a long 
download.

> > Does it take noticeably longer to start playing
> > streaming audio with this script?
>
> No.  There is obviously a delay while nslookup queries
> your DNS server; however, mplayer would experience the
> same delay if it had to do the DNS query.  So the script
> itself slows things down a bit, but then mplayer starts
> faster.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven