Mplayer plugin doesn't work in mozilla

[Tormod Ravnanger Landet]

Binary package hint: mozilla-mplayer

I run Dapper upgraded from Breezy. I don't think I have changed any of the firefox, mozilla or mozilla-mplayer packages or their configs. I have tried removing ~/.mozilla and "apt-get remove --purge" the packages and reinstalling them.

Steps to reproduce:

- Make sure firefox, mozilla-browser and mozilla-mplayer are installed
- Check about:plugins in both browsers --> looks similar/identical
- Try to watch a movie --> works in firefox, not mozilla

I have tried to set debug=1 in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf and lauch the following:

"mozilla http://www.turbogears.org/preview/docs/TurboTunes/catwalk.mov"
--> no output in console and a white page in the browser (I removed the libnullplugin.so to see if it was interfering because it was shown in stead of mplayerplug-in, but it seems mozilla really doesn't think it can display .mov (or .mpg etc) files).

"firefox http://www.turbogears.org/preview/docs/TurboTunes/catwalk.mov"
--> lots of debug output and the movie plays

I was told this may be a packaging problem at the mplayerplug-in bugtracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=530623&aid=1500239&group_id=71239

My "/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins" directory contains symlinks to the files in "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins", so the plugins are identical.

Java and Flash works in both browsers

[oceandead (ubuntu-oceandead)]

I have also experienced this bug.

First noticed it upon a Breezy > Dapper upgrade. Tried uninstalling (also removed ~/.mozilla & ~/.mplayer the second time) /reinstalling both packages twice.

I also noticed this on a dapper daily build [- Alpha i386 (20060228)] > Dapper install.

I have not tested on a fresh install.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:52:18 -0400
Source: mplayerplug-in
Binary: mozilla-mplayer
Architecture: source
Version: 3.25-7ubuntu1
Distribution: edgy
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ari Pollak <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>
Description:
 mozilla-mplayer - MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
Closes: 354131 354131 354837 359914 362432 362520 365508 368783
Changes:
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-7ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Resynchronise with Debian (Closes Ubuntu: #33722, #43382, #44639,
     #48424).
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-7) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * This is part 7834783 in the neverending series of trying to get
     the dependencies as thin as possible without breaking things.
     Build against mozilla-dev, not libxul-dev, since apparently
     the newer headers make mplayerplug-in not work with Mozilla.
     Hopefully this should make it work on all Gecko-based browsers
     without changing install-time dependencies.
     (Closes: #368783)
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-6) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add | mplayer-powerpc | mplayer-g4 to Depends (Closes: #365508)
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Build against xulrunner headers, but don't link with xulrunner libraries,
     and remove dependency on mozilla-browser | firefox
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add /usr/lib/firefox to the rpath as well (Closes: #362520)
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Link the plugin with an rpath of /usr/lib/mozilla so that
     it doesn't try to use xulrunner's libraries. (Closes: #354837, #362432
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix a typo in the Depends, mplayer-nogui wasn't being accepted.
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.25-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release
   * Re-add dependency on mozilla-browser (Closes: #354131)
   * Change mplayer-* dependencies to mplayer | mplayer-nogui
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.21-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Apply patch from upstream author to fix playing with newer mplayer
     CVS versions (Closes: #359914)
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.21-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add konqueror, galeon, and epiphany-browser as possible depends
     (Closes: 354131)
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release
 .
 mplayerplug-in (3.20-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release
Files:
 2dc962076416bae50f245bc99c70b71c 691 contrib/misc optional mplayerplug-in_3.25-7ubuntu1.dsc
 fb99a2efeacd5aed8b92ae0bb33c708a 209554 contrib/misc optional mplayerplug-in_3.25.orig.tar.gz
 88e32075581185ea2213253cd8346cad 14000 contrib/misc optional mplayerplug-in_3.25-7ubuntu1.diff.gz

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