Divx plugin for firefox

Responding to D Herring...

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>>
>> I am having only one problem now with they gui. I extracted the
>> default blue skin and copied it over to /mplayer/skins/default/skin as
>> indicated from the manual but, I am getting the error that the folder
>> is unreadeable, under user or root. How can that be?[/color]
>[/color]

I just dropped my skins into /home/USER/.mplayer/skins

and simlinked the "Blue" skin dir as "default".

Not sure if this is the "official" way, but it worked for me.

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On Sep 6, 12:22 am, D Herring <dherr...@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> frz wrote:[color=green]
> > On Sep 4, 10:14 pm, D Herring <dherr...@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> frz wrote:
> >>> frz wrote:
> >>>> I think now that my problem may be with the unpacking of the tar.bz2
> >>>> file. I gonna redownload it and try again. Thanks
> >>> And that work. I now have mplayer install. I did a mistake the first
> >>> time around unpacking the file. I have re-download the skins as well.
> >> Not sure what happened, but the best ways to extract "mplayer.tar.bz2"
> >> is to simply "tar xf mplayer.tar.bz2"; modern versions of tar can
> >> autodetect the compression. To list the files (without extracting),
> >> the command is "tar tf mplayer.tar.bz2".[/color][/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> - Daniel[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > Really, I was only going by the book using the tar -xvjf
> > mplayer.tar.bz2. The first time I did the command wrong and it gave me
> > an error I had ignored, didn't know that the unpack folser would
> > actually be incomplete. It was also the same thing for the skins that
> > I had unpacked at the same time which is why I re-download them all.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > I am having only one problem now with they gui. I extracted the
> > default blue skin and copied it over to /mplayer/skins/default/skin as
> > indicated from the manual but, I am getting the error that the folder
> > is unreadeable, under user or root. How can that be?[/color]
>
> Are the permissions correct?
>
> Here's one way to make a bad directory and fix it:[color=green]
> > mkdir testdir
> > chmod 644 testdir
> > cd testdir[/color]
> cd: testdir: Permission denied[color=green]
> > chmod 755 testdir
> > cd testdir[/color]
>
> Are you out of disk space?[color=green]
> > df[/color]
> should show Use% below 100%
>
> - Daniel[/color]

Sorry I haven't reply earlier but, I am not out of disk space. I am at
60%. I think its a permission issue since I had create all new
directory with root. ls -l shows
drwxr-xr-r 3 root root 4096 2007-09-04 23:33 Blue

James Michael Fultz wrote:[color=blue]
> * cashmir <cash@xs4all.nl>:
> [ ... Firefox + mplayerplug-in ... ][color=green]
>> Yip, the plugins are there.[/color]
> [ ... modifying '~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat' ... ][color=green]
>> That made things going but now it's crasching after some time. :)
>> Could be a memory-problem ( i've only 512M ).[/color]
>
> Just now found the following solution having a missing DivX plugin with
> Firefox and mplayerplug-in.
>
> You need the files 'mplayerplug-in.conf' and 'mplayerplug-in.types'
> installed either globally ('/etc' ...) or locally ('~/.mozilla' or
> '~/.mplayer'). Your local configuration overrides any global
> configuration. Then modify 'mplayerplug-in.conf' so that it contains
> the following line:
>
> use-mimetypes=1
>
> Close all running instances of Firefox and remove your
> '~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat' file. Start Firefox again. You
> should now find DivX among the supported types in about:plugins.
>[/color]
I have just did a success install of this plugin but, it doesn't work
under user. It works fine under root.

I have no fonts in /usr/local/share/mplayer/font

On Sep 18, 8:46 pm, frz <f...@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> James Michael Fultz wrote:[color=green]
> > * cashmir <c...@xs4all.nl>:
> > [ ... Firefox + mplayerplug-in ... ][color=darkred]
> >> Yip, the plugins are there.[/color]
> > [ ... modifying '~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat' ... ][color=darkred]
> >> That made things going but now it's crasching after some time. :)
> >> Could be a memory-problem ( i've only 512M ).[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > Just now found the following solution having a missing DivX plugin with
> > Firefox and mplayerplug-in.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > You need the files 'mplayerplug-in.conf' and 'mplayerplug-in.types'
> > installed either globally ('/etc' ...) or locally ('~/.mozilla' or
> > '~/.mplayer'). Your local configuration overrides any global
> > configuration. Then modify 'mplayerplug-in.conf' so that it contains
> > the following line:[/color]
>[color=green]
> > use-mimetypes=1[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Close all running instances of Firefox and remove your
> > '~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat' file. Start Firefox again. You
> > should now find DivX among the supported types in about:plugins.[/color]
>
> I have just did a success install of this plugin but, it doesn't work
> under user. It works fine under root.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -[/color]

How do I make the plugin work under user now that its install and
working perfectly. Is that another permissions issue
? I am seeing that alot every time I install something. I think I know
what went wrong but, don't mind getting the input you guys have on it
anyway. Thanks

* frz <frzd@hotmail.com>:[color=blue]
> On Sep 18, 8:46 pm, frz <f...@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> James Michael Fultz wrote:[color=darkred]
>> > * cashmir <c...@xs4all.nl>:
>> > [ ... Firefox + mplayerplug-in ... ][/color][/color][/color]
[ ... ][color=blue][color=green]
>> I have just did a success install of this plugin but, it doesn't work
>> under user. It works fine under root.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -[/color]
>
> How do I make the plugin work under user now that its install and
> working perfectly. Is that another permissions issue ? I am seeing
> that alot every time I install something. I think I know what went
> wrong but, don't mind getting the input you guys have on it anyway.
> Thanks[/color]

Permissions may be an issue. Check the permissions on the plugin files
and ensure that they are world-readable.

If you made changes to the global 'mplayerplug-in.conf' (in '/etc'),
that should be fine. Otherwise, be sure that there is a copy in your
user's home directory. If there is a copy in root's home directory,
that only affects the functionality of the plugin for root.

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James Michael Fultz <xyzzy@sent.as.invalid>
Remove this part when replying ^^^^^^^^

On Sep 20, 8:19 am, James Michael Fultz <xy...@sent.as.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> * frz <f...@hotmail.com>:
>[color=green]
> > On Sep 18, 8:46 pm, frz <f...@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> James Michael Fultz wrote:
> >> > * cashmir <c...@xs4all.nl>:
> >> > [ ... Firefox + mplayerplug-in ... ][/color][/color]
> [ ... ][color=green][color=darkred]
> >> I have just did a success install of this plugin but, it doesn't work
> >> under user. It works fine under root.- Hide quoted text -[/color][/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> - Show quoted text -[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > How do I make the plugin work under user now that its install and
> > working perfectly. Is that another permissions issue ? I am seeing
> > that alot every time I install something. I think I know what went
> > wrong but, don't mind getting the input you guys have on it anyway.
> > Thanks[/color]
>
> Permissions may be an issue. Check the permissions on the plugin files
> and ensure that they are world-readable.
>
> If you made changes to the global 'mplayerplug-in.conf' (in '/etc'),
> that should be fine. Otherwise, be sure that there is a copy in your
> user's home directory. If there is a copy in root's home directory,
> that only affects the functionality of the plugin for root.
>
> --
> James Michael Fultz <xy...@sent.as.invalid>
> Remove this part when replying ^^^^^^^^[/color]

Well, I am glad I got that part working now. It was before this reply
so I didn't go this way. I reinstalled the plugin under user using the
super user mode and it was a success along with the flash player
plugin. Thanks for the reply.

The file ~/.mozilla.firefox/pluginreg.dat is auto-generated everytime
Firefox starts. I modified it and added another module file
(mplayerplug-in-dvx.so but it didn't work after I restarted Firefox.
However I did add the line xx:video/divx:divx:DIVX:$ at the end of
mplayerplug-in-wmp and it worked. I haven't restarted the browser yet
so I don't know if it will work after I do that.

I installed mplayerplug-in through the package manager in Ubuntu and I
found nothing for divx support in packages. Maybe Ubuntu people can
make it a module package or something. I am playing a video on stage6
as I write this. It hasn't crashed on me yet .. but then again I JUST
got it to work.

At first, I tried the use-mimetypes=1 in the config file of mplayer
and that didn't work. So, I tried adding the divx line to Firefox
plugin page and it worked. I don't know if it was the combination of
both of the things that got it to work or if it was just the
modification of the pluginreg.dat file.