[SOLVED] Debian Etch 4.0 Mplayer Plugin 3.5 or Greater Help

[lindylex]

Has anyone using Debian Etch 4.0 upgraded mplayer plugin to 3.5 or greater? If so how? The repositories don't have it. When I build it from source it just does not play anything. And this process has been a pain in my back side.

If you have the plugins working then can you just place them some where so I can download them please?

Environment

Firefox Browser 2.0


Thanks Lex

[Dapper Dan]

Hi Lex and welcome to the forums! Was the version of Mplayer plugin for Etch not working properly for you? Does 3.5 have something that the earlier version is missing?

[lindylex]

Dapper Dan, version 2.4 that come with stable does not work with many websites. The player does not ppay th new encoding versions. Version 3.0 or greater will. This is why I want to upgrade.

I found it in this repository

Debian Multimedia Packages::mozilla-mplayer

I added this line

deb Debian Multimedia Packages::Home unstable main

to the /etc/apt/sources.list text file

then

aptitude update

It tries to install the 3.4 package. How do I force it to install 3.5 from unstable?

I assume the repository will take care of these dependencies, that is?


(Reading database ... 71597 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mozilla-mplayer (from mozilla-mplayer_3.50-0.0_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla-mplayer:
mozilla-mplayer depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1); however:
Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.1.1-21.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.12.4-2.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.8.20-7.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.1.1-21.
dpkg: error processing mozilla-mplayer (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla-mplayer

[Dapper Dan]

Hmmm. That's a very formidable group of dependencies. If you must have mplayer plugin version 3.5 and it is in the unstable branch, maybe the simplest solution would be to upgrade your whole system to unstable.

[lindylex]

Nope not chnaging to unstable. There is a way to target the package from the repository I think. I remeber reading something like this in passing.

Lex

[dahveed3]

If you go to the debian-multimedia.org website you'll see instructions there for using his stable repo for stable, testing for testing, etc. Mixing testing and unstable repositories with an Etch system will eventually leave you with vital system files destroyed and no longer have a working system.

If you want a version of mplayer that debian-multimedia.org doesn't offer in their stable repo to use on Etch, you may go to the mplayer upstream website and download and compile mplayer from source. Make sure you purge all existing mplayer files (aptitude purge mplayer and any other thing having to do with it) before you build your upstream version if you choose to do that.

[lindylex]

[SOLVED SOLUTION]

[Problem]

This is my problem. I use Debian Etch 4.0 and I want to use Firefox web browser. I usually use mplayer plugins to view video content but I recently notice the plugins are out of date and I can not view video from most sites. This really sucked. I tried Xine plugins, VLC and Totem web plugins but they all did one thing bad. Some did not support certain video file types while others crashed my browser.

[Solution]

I downloaded the latest source for mplayer plugins 3.55 and built the plugins.

1. Download the built plugins from http://mo-de.net/d/mplayerplug-in_3.55.zip
2. Install mplayer plugins if you have not yet.
a. aptitude install mozilla-mplayer
3. Uncompress the plugins itheir should be ten files.
Open this folder \usr\lib\mozilla\plugins and cros reference what files are in the compressed file I gave you. If it exists within the \usr\lib\mozilla\plugins
Then move them to a different folder named backup.
4. Place the files from within mplayerplug-in_3.55.zip into
\usr\lib\mozilla\plugins

[What I Did Wrong Initially]

Initially I would build the plugins then uninstall mozilla-plugins. Mozilla-plugins has dependencies that it installs. I totally did not bother to take that into consideration. Now that you install version 3.4 and replaced the plugins files the dependencies are taken care of and Debian thinks you have 3.4 install but you actually have version 3.55 plugins running the show. You will notice when you type “about-plugins” into the browser windows it will tell you, the plugins are version 3.4. This update works for Realplayer, Apple and Windows Media streams.

You can test the plugins at these locations.

/// How To test plugins //
Real
Customer Support - RealAudio and RealVideo Test Clips
Apple Quicktime
Apple - Movie Trailers
Windows Media
Windows Media test
MPEG
ftp://ftp.tek.com/tv/test/streams/Element/index.html

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Mostly problem free computing from Lindylex!

[Dapper Dan]

Thanks for sharing the solution lindylex!