On Tuesday, 8. November 2005 09:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> El día Tuesday, November 08, 2005 a las 08:29:56AM +0100, guru escribió:
> > El día Monday, November 07, 2005 a las 11:38:51PM +0100, Bartosz 
Fabianowski escribió:
> > > >ok, but it does not show up from 'about:pluins', why?
> > >
> > > That's "about:plugins", not "about:pluins". Maybe that's your mistake?
> >
> > of course it is "about:plugins", mine was a typo in the e-mail;
> >
> > > On my system, mplayer-plugin does show up in "about:plugins". It shows
> > > up as "Google VLC multimedia plugin 1.0", "QuickTime Plug-in 6.0",
> > > "RealPlayer 9", "Windows Media Player Plugin" and "mplayerplug-in 3.11"
> > > itself.
> >
> > I've /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ in the list of the dirs
> > which KDE scans for plugins and when I do a 'Scan for new
> > Plugins' the files are accessed as I can see with ls:
> >
> > $ ls -lLu mplayerplug-in.so
> > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  220029  8 nov 08:28 mplayerplug-in.so
> >
> > but the Plugin-tab only shows the Netscape plugins :-(
>
> I've watched with truss(1) what's going on while scanning:
>
> it opens the file /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
> and tries to find all needed shared libs; this one is missing:
>
> libxpcom.so
>
> when I copy it over from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so to
> some place where it is searched for, the mplayer attaches to
> konqueror ... is this a bug and how it should be solved without
> this dirty copy?

The plugin just assumes that it's being used in a mozilla-based browser. Like 
I said before, there is a better alternative to using mplayer-plugin in 
konqueror - kmplayer. The netscape plugin compatibility should be regarded as 
a last resort (truth be told it mostly exists for flash).

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