There’s a nice bit over at linux-sxs.org detailing how to install mplayer for mozilla. Should be useful for all Linux users, particularly those that use new distributions that use Mozilla as the default browser.
Installing MPlayer for Mozilla
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right when I switch to konqueror 3.1 as my main browser. Is there anything like this for konqueror?
Yes there is http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html
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for those who can’t get this to work (like me), go to http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/. it’s another plugin. all you need to do is do a “make”, then the resulting mplayerplug-in.so file must be copied in the mozilla plugin directory (mine’s at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin/). that’s it. it works better i think. or just on my pc. i’d love to show a screenshot, but quicktime movies don’t seem to like screenshots.
mplayer-plugin works much better for me (altough I would like to have some controls and the ability to preload a streaming movie before playing it so that I can view larger movies instead of small ones only (connection is too slow)).
>> i’d love to show a screenshot, but quicktime movies don’t seem to like screenshots.
Use another video driver (no xv) or start up multiple instances of MPlayer before taking a screenshot..
Wierd things… mplayerplugin and mplayer is installed. I tried the apple switch ads, but all I get is a box with
‘mplayer pluin – Loading movie…’
That’s it. Nothing more… Anybody else had such a problem?
Nether WebfreeTv.com or mplayerplug-in work for me. All I get is ‘mplayer pluin – Loading movie…’ or ‘www.webfreetv.com’. I’m running Mozilla 1.2b and Mplayer mplayer-0.90pre10-fr1 with all the binary DLLs inatalled.
and don’t hold me to this, but it’s probably due to the way Sorenson and/or QT handle the “hidden” information. Inside your typical Apple trailer site, the link is actually a “referring” .mov that actually calls another .mov. Kinda similar to the way DVD’s work (IIRC). AFAICT, it’s a cheesy way of requiring compliant (read: Apple or Windows) clients. I don’t think mplayer has a way of gracefully handling that particular data in the codec stream. (Mind you, I know very little about codecs… this was all explained to me in a recent LUG meeting.)
The way to get around it isn’t a breeze, but it’s not entirely difficult, either. Read the html source for the trailer page, and look for the href to the relevant .mov. Then use wget to grab that first file. It will likely NOT have the movie, but WILL send the missing filename to stderr (provided you’re running mplayer from the command line). Then just download each subsequent .mov until you get to the real one.
Complex? Yup. Easy? Yup? Waste of time? Yup. I just downloaded 3 .mov’s to get to the real Matrix Reloaded trailer. But it was worth it. 😉
-fp.
Correction: You’ll want to look for the “embed” tag for the relevant link to the .mov (for Apple trailers), not an href.
-fp.
I’m getting the exact problems others talk about, and i’ve tried both of the ways of doing it. I’m not about to start hunting for urls to watch trailers. Could someone put up non-bastardized version of a video so that i could test this out?
Thanks
1) Yes, I’m having the same problems as everyone else.
2) Your prerogrative. I don’t blame you, but it doesn’t bother me to jump through the hoops.
3) I tried writing a testpage using embed, linking to my local file. No good.
4) I even tried loading the .mov by itself with mozilla/galeon. No good either. Oh well.
-fp
The DareDevil and Hulk movies worked for me but other did not. Blasted Apple !! You can take from the OSS community and not give back in terms of useful apps like quicktime for Linux or something that people might actually want to use. Sure I like Mplayer and think that with some work that Mplayer and it’s plugin will eventually work good enough for people to use but damit why can’t Apple just give back something useful !!
I can play _all_ movies (from anywhere, including the trailers @ apple.com).
You just need the Qt6 DLL’s and not those for Qt5.
Which plugin did you use?
And is distributing the qt6 dlls for free illegal? and if not… anyone got the up somewheres?
Here’s a script that will download the real movie from an Apple trailer page. Its a simple translator of mangled urls to the real akamai one using a few known schemes. You can run it with ‘mov.py http://page.with.the/embdeded/movie‘. I’m guessing that that tabs won’t be preserved when I post this, but oh well.
Python people will figure it out…
#!/usr/bin/python
import os,sys,re,string
try:
url = sys.argv[1]
except:
print “Usage: %s URL” % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit (1)
# Get the web page with embedded movie
p = os.popen (“wget -O – %s” % url)
lines = p.readlines ()
p.close ()
mov = None
for line in lines:
m = re.match (‘^.*(?P<mov>http.*_480.mov)’, line)
if m:
mov = m.group (‘mov’)
mov = string.replace (mov, ‘_480’, ‘_m480’)
break
m = re.match (‘^.*(?P<mov>http.*-sref.mov)’, line)
if m:
mov = m.group (‘mov’)
mov = string.replace (mov, ‘-sref’, ‘_m480’)
break
m = re.match (‘^.*(?P<mov>http.*_480r.mov)’, line)
if m:
mov = m.group (‘mov’)
mov = string.replace (mov, ‘480r’, ‘m480’)
break
m = re.match (‘^.*(?P<mov>http.*_320.mov)’, line)
if m:
mov = m.group (‘mov’)
mov = string.replace (mov, ‘320’, ‘m320’)
break
if mov:
os.system (“wget %s” % mov)
else:
print “No movies found.”
sys.exit (1)
>> Which plugin did you use?
mplayer-plugin
>> And is distributing the qt6 dlls for free illegal? and if not… anyone got the up somewheres?
Dunno, but you can download them here: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
(watch the Quicktime6 DLL’s part)
well, i’m too lazy to get screen captures… anyway…
if you’ve got an rpm capable distro, use the rpms for mplayer and the codecs. that’s what i did. using redhat 8.0 with mplayer 0.90rc3 rpms + codecs in rpms.
“make”d the source of mplayerplug-in. placed .so file in plugin dir. it does show the same thing “mplayer pluin – Loading movie…”, it takes awhile to finish loading a significant part of the movie before it plays, so maybe it just hasn’t downloaded enough of the movie. since there’s no gui controls (yet) for the plugin, hard to see how much has been downloaded.
about the legality… i’m thinking it should be legal since we’re not using it as a “quicktime pro” version where we can encode videos. we’re just playing, and apple already distributes quicktime for free. besides, wouldn’t apple like to see more people viewing quicktime movies instead of wmv or real or something?
Installed mplayer from http://www.freshmeat.net , without doing jack, mplayer embeds itself in mozilla/galeon. Don’t know if its the mplayer RPM or RH’s plugger, but plugger is atleast configured to use mplayer. Very Nice(TM)
./configure –enable-gui … why not enable the gui by default and have a “–disable-gui”?
I’m begind a proxy… “Connect error” – I searched the howto for “proxy” and found …
“MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced”
->google, in a mailinglist I found there has to be a preceeding “http://“…
export http_püroxy=”http://proxy.domain.com:8080“.
Why can’t this be set in the preference-dialogs anyway?
Where do I have to copy these damn codec files?
I have been using Linux for five years day by day at home and at work.
I (still) like it a lot – but things like this are really annoying and deterrent.
I don’t have Mozilla install, so does it works with phoenix? I keep get error in the Phoenix with this plugin. Maybe, it’s because of FreeBSD or else. I compiled both of them and still no go.
Thanks for the heads up on the QT files. I had the earlier ones that they posted when they first got qt to work in mplayer. I guess they must of update those libs or something. I followed your advise and downloaded the new qt6 libs and everything now works as some as silk.
P.S. I used this plugin as the other one barfed on me. This one works a lot better IMHO.
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
and you can find all the codecs you’ll ever need here
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
and of course you get mplayer from here
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
If you use Debian(I use Sid/Unstable) and instaled mplayer through apt-get, you can get the codecs for qt6 by doing “apt-get install qt6codecs”
This is unfortunately another effort that just falls short of really working for everyone. Ive tried this one, the mplayer one, and also plugger 4.0. None of them work worth a damn for me. After reading most of these posts its clear then the majority is also experiencing the same issues I am. Ive looked and looked and cant really find any documentation or support on these plugins……which is unfortunate because its probably not too difficult a problem.
Until we have a really good effort to bring a real working mplayer plugin to the masses with support for more than one distro, I’ll have to stick with my Crossover Plugin. FYI for anyone interested, this really does work. It costs 20 to 30 bucks, but so what when everything else we do is free. With Crossover Plugin from Codeweavers, I can now have the actual Quicktime6, and wmp 6.4 plugin support under any version of mozilla and any distro of linux……it just works.
Kmplayer really works awesome for me. Most embedded movies (be it windowsmedia, or quicktime), ‘just work’.. I love it