BP ROV feeds mplayerplug-in xulrunner-1.9.1.11 success firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2 - nope
FYI, I know mplayerplug-in is not in the book, but I wanted to see the BP oil spill ROV live feeds. http://www.bp.com/sectionbodycopy.do?categoryId=9034366&contentId=7063636 Xine and/or Xine-plugin could do some of them :) But a few must be poor feeds and just don't show even when there is something to see. The Skandi and Q4000 were the problem streams :( VLC could show them all, but a pain to install/use and nothing I tried could produce a functioning browser plugin for vlc :( MPlayer was a little hard to install. And mplayerplug-in was even rediculously harder to install. But after banging it against the wall for 8 hrs, it succumbed to showing all the ROV feeds :) ... hey, like windows ... except for the tiny gui ... Xulrunner was a monkeywrench # Note: The firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2 piece from blfs dev didn't work to build mplayerplug-in. It would not need to swap lines idldir and includetype in libxul.pc since it does not do the includetype thing. It would still need a link to xpidl in /usr/bin or else mplayerplug-in configure will fail right away. But alas, no joy. No joy with blfs dev version - firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2 ========================================================= mplayerplug-in failed at these messages: In file included from include/npplat.h:42, from include/pluginbase.h:41, from Source/plugin.h:53, from Source/plugin.cpp:37: include/npupp.h:62:17: error: jri.h: No such file or directory ========================================================= # Note: xulrunner-1.9.1.11.source.tar.bz2 succeded mplayerplug-in. xulrunner ========= Some broken stuff and the google respondents either had no clue or would not tell. Or they said "Please don't use mplayerplug-in anymore. Use gecko-mediaplayer instead. Thank you." Best clues: http://lists.cross-lfs.org/pipermail/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org/2008-August/000254.html (balage) http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/a52f7cf4bb00de45 One or two things broken: 1) A link to xpidl is missing. 2) The libxul.pc file may be broken. Notorious error messages: 1) configure: error: xpidl compiler not found 2) ./Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.idl:2: can't open included file These messages did NOT inhibit any function I am aware of --------------------------------------------------------- checking for MOZPLUG... no configure: WARNING: mozilla-plugin not found checking for MOZPLUG... no configure: WARNING: firefox-plugin not found checking for MOZPLUG... no configure: WARNING: seamonkey-plugin not found checking for MOZPLUG... no configure: WARNING: xulrunner-plugin not found ---------------------------------------------------------- I tried http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.1.11/source/xulrunner-1.9.1.11.source.tar.bz2 because that was the closest to a slackbuild that one would think would work. It worked. I did this: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --mandir=/usr/man \ --enable-system-lcms \ --with-system-bz2 \ --enable-safe-browsing \ --enable-image-encoder=all \ --enable-application=xulrunner \ --disable-mailnews \ --disable-crashreporter \ --disable-installer \ --disable-updater \ --build=lfs \ --enable-system-sqlite \ --enable-system-cairo \ --with-system-jpeg \ --with-system-nspr \ --with-system-nss \ --with-system-png \ --with-system-zlib \ --disable-accessibility \ --disable-gnomevfs \ --disable-necko-wifi \ --disable-javaxpcom \ --disable-tests && make && make install # fix 1 or 2 broken things xulver=$(xulrunner -v 2>&1 | awk '{print $3}') # I guess xulpc=/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxul.pc if [ -d /usr/lib/xulrunner-${xulver} ]; then ln -sfv /usr/lib/xulrunner-${xulver}/xpidl /usr/bin if [ $(grep -c includetype $xulpc) != "0" ]; then cp -v ${xulpc}{,.orig} # optional # risky, # do not run twice, if [ $(grep -c "idldir=.*/\${includetype}" $xulpc) == "0" ]; then # swap lines idldir and includetype, # then tack "/${includetype}" at end of line idldir sed -i -e "/^idldir/{h;d} /^includetype/{p;g;s/$/\/\${includetype}/} " /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxul.pc fi fi fi Bottom line: you'll need links in /usr/bin pointing to the name in the xulrunner libdir for both of: xulrunner xpidl mplayerplug-in ============== The only one that worked was http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in-daily.tar.gz I did this: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --localstatedir=/var \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-mozilla-home=/usr/share/mozilla \ --enable-wmp \ --enable-qt \ --enable-rm \ --enable-gmp \ --enable-dvx && make && make install # I made links in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins to the names in the (system) "--with-mozilla-home" directory, e.g., /usr/share/mozilla/plugins #!/bin/bash mypwd=$(pwd) moz_home=/usr/share/mozilla if [ "$mypwd" != "${HOME}/.mozilla/plugins" ]; then cd ${HOME}/.mozilla/plugins || exit fi if [ "$moz_home" != "${HOME}/.mozilla" ] && [ -d "$moz_home" ]; then echo "In directory: $(pwd)" for i in $(ls ${moz_home}/plugins); do if [ "${i#mplayerplug-in}" != "$i" ]; then ln -sv ${moz_home}/plugins/$i $i fi done fi cd $mypwd So now, after 3 months and most of the fun is over, I can conveniently see the BP oil spill ROV live feeds. I'm not the best one at FHS or sed though, (among other things). Afterthoughts ... Xine seems less of a hog than mplayer. Xine can take a snapshot ... Snapshots are tricky, if possible, with the others. Ffmpeg might be thinking of supportig mms://urls someday. Wait ... that's not TonyBaloney driving an ROV ... ??? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
