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  • Subject: Re: [BL] mplayer plugin
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:36:37 +0000 (UTC)

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

Message from Steven
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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





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