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KernelPanic:
because mplayer is free?!?!

voidmain:
Why would I want that? It gives me no more than MPlayer gives me. In fact it gives me much less since MPlayer can play a lot more formats.. Besides that, I don't want any Windows software running on my computer though crappy emulation.

Doctor V:
Thanks, MPlayer works great from the command line, but I still havn't figured out how to get it embedded into Mozilla.  I havn't found alot of documentation for Plugger.

V

voidmain:
What do you get when you do a "Help"->"About Plug-ins" in Mozilla? You should get something like this:


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If so, you have properly installed plugger. Now you need to tell plugger what to use for each media type. This was pretty much configured properly for me when I installed the plugger RPM in RedHat8 but I still wanted to use mplayer over other apps for most types. This is done in the "/etc/pluggerrc" file. You'll find an entry for every mime type. For instance I change the section for "video/quicktime" from:


--- Code: ---
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to


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---

I'm no expert on the pluggerrc file and if I were I would clean up all the references to other players and use only mplayer for all of it's supported media types.

When you get it configured the way you think it should work go to the test page on the plugger site and try all the video types to make sure they play embedded in Mozilla:

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html

If you still can't get it to work let me know and we'll figure it out.

The man page really does look helpful (man plugger) and I believe one of these days I'll go though it and tweak the mimetypes exactly as I want them.

On a side note, did you get the GUI interface for mplayer (gmplayer)? It's pretty slick and looks a lot like the xine interface.

[ October 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Doctor V:
Still hasn't worked.  I tried both Plugger 4.0 and 3.3, and both the rpms and tar.gz's for each.  I followed the installation instructions, and even tried manually copying the plugger, pluggerrc, and plugger.so files to the ./mozilla and plugins directory.  No luck.  I'm useing Mozilla 1.2 beta.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

V

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