Firefox: all plugins loaded, but don't work

pickarooney · 01-22-2007, 01:21 PM

I've installed Firefox (32-bit Kubuntu) and all the media plugins recommended in the Wiki HOWTO, and when I type about: plugins the following are listed:

VLC Multimedia plugin
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_08-b03
Adobe Reader 7.0
Shockwave Flash
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7
RealPlayer 9
Windows Media Player Plugin
mplayerplug-in 3.31

When I go to Quicktime and click on a video, all that displays is (no video)
When I try to play Real Player content I get some picture but the sound is all chopped and there are green screens every half second. The version of realplayer installed on my system is 10 but shows as 9 in the plugins list.

I set the MMS protocol handler as described here (except my vlc is in /usr/bin/vlc so I used that path) and RTSP handling as described here
but again with the corrected path to realplay.

In the Preferences section of Firefox, Content, File Types AVI/WMV files are associated with the Windows Media Player plugin and I can't choose another plugin such as the mplayer one. Likewise QT files are associated with the QuickTime plugin.

On another note, none of these plugins load when I run Swiftfox, but that's less important.

jlo_sandog · 01-23-2007, 01:43 AM

Clearly you have conflicting plugins. You have to make a choice as to which media player you wan't to use for a particular media type. Fox example, If you want real player instead of mplayer to deal with real media files then remove mplayerplug-in-rm.so and keep the nphelix.so file.

Plugins can reside in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, ~/.mozilla/plugins, or in /Path_to_firefox_or_swiftfox/firefox(or Swiftfox)/plugins

craigevil · 01-23-2007, 06:43 AM

Plugins (10):

* Adobe Reader 7.0
* DivX Browser Plug-In (mplayerplug-in)
* Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
* Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_10-b03
* MozPlugger 1.7.3 handles QuickTime Windows Media Player Plugin
* mplayerplug-in 3.31
* QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7 (mplayerplug-in)
* RealPlayer 9 (realplay)
* Shockwave Flash
* Windows Media Player Plugin (mplayerplug-in)

NO need to remove any plugins. Instead edit the mplayerplug-in.conf file.
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/config.php

Quicktime trailers work just fine for me.

pickarooney · 01-23-2007, 12:27 PM

Thanks for the replies.
I made a ~/.mozilla/mplayerplug-in.conf file and edit it as follows, but the only difference it made was that Firefox hung when I tried to view a trailer from Quicktime (it still had a black screen with no video written on it). I can't figure out how FF decides which plug-in handles which filetypes.

Code:

#debug=0
#vo=xv,x11
#ao=arts,esd,oss
#download=1
dload-dir=$HOME/tmp
#keep-download=0
#noembed=0
#cachesize=512
use-mimetypes=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
#qt-speed=med
#rtsp-use-tcp=0
#nomediacache=0
#framedrop=0
#autosync=0
#mc=1
#black-background=0
#user-agent=NSPlayer
autostart=0
showtracker=1
display=0

I have a two-screen setup with a monitor and a TV, not in clone mode (RightOf option in my xorg.conf file), which is why I chose display=0.

pickarooney · 01-23-2007, 12:36 PM

OK, fixed it!
The problem was the VLC plugin which isn't in craigevil's list. I just renamed /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so and restarted Firefox and now mplayer handles, and plays the video files

craigevil · 01-23-2007, 04:36 PM

Great! I was going to suggest VLC as the problem, I remember seeing something about it not playing nice in another forum.