Firefox 1.5 / Windows media player plugin

[sjaglin]

Sorry, I think this was a previous topic but can t find nor remember it. A quick Google and I m still not happy bunny!

 

I installed recently Firefox 1.5 because the scrapbook extension was not working on the original version shipped with mdv 2006. Since all is real good except that I can t read Windows media player streams amy more. (europe1 is the website I use to listen to the French radia as I live in the UK).

 

Can you remind me quickly how to make this work again please???

 

:unsure:

 

Ta!

 

Stef

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

[ianw1974]

I use mplayerplugin, does the trick in Firefox.

[ianw1974]

One other thing, just realised. I've got FF1.5 as well, which I installed into /usr/local/mozilla/firefox. This is what else I did:

 

mv /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
rm /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins -rdf
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins

 

that way, if you install any Mandriva apps, they get the firefox extensions from the FF1.0.x that comes with Mandriva by default.

[sjaglin]

Thanks Ian,

I ve done both and I m afraid still no joy. At least I can now listen to the radio with kmplayer but firefox still doesn't want to know!

I will kill a few aliens (X3) and come back to it in a while...

Stef

:D

[devries]

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=26814

[ianw1974]

I can only think it's not finding your firefox plugins correctly or something :unsure:

 

I know mine didn't work at first, until I did the symlink, then it was perfectly fine after that. Of course, your FF1.5 could be in a completely different place to where I put mine, but when you urpmi mplayerplugin, it always puts them in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Here is my config shown below, so you can try and replicate where necessary:

 

[ian@europa ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/firefox | grep plugins
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root	  24 Apr 20 10:47 plugins -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
drwxr-xr-x  2 ian  ian	  432 Mar  8 21:46 searchplugins/

[ian@europa ~]$ ls /usr/local/mozilla/firefox/plugins/
libmozsvgdec.so*		 mplayerplug-in-qt.so*   mplayerplug-in.so*
libnullplugin.so*		mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt*  mplayerplug-in-wmp.so*
mplayerplug-in-gmp.so*   mplayerplug-in-rm.so*   mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt*  mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt*  mplayerplug-in.xpt

 

don't know if that helps any.

[daniewicz]

mplayerplug-in.so and mplayerplug-in.xpt need to be in: ~/.mozilla/plugins

[sjaglin]

  ls -l /home/stephane/Firefox1.5.1/firefox | grep plugins
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root	  72 Apr 20 09:54 plugins/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root	 432 Jan 25 00:32 searchplugins/

Looks like my simlink didn t work isn t it?

[ianw1974]

Looks that way, just remove the plugins directory, but make sure you move the contents from this plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and then symlink to this directory. You will be fine then.

 

My ~/.mozilla/plugins directory only houses the flash plugin, my mplayer ones are definitely pulled from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

 

The symlink saves having to duplicate the files, thus making things a lot easier.