On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:14, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:31, Craig White wrote: > > trying to play movies in Mozilla (1.2.1) (fwiw RH9) > > I have mplayer and xine installed and they both work - xine seems to > > stand alone whereas mplayer seems to play content within Mozilla. > > I'm currently playing webcasts from Mozilla using the xine plugin. > > The trick is to get gxine, not the default xine player. This package > contains the Mozilla plugin you need. Then you just symlink it to > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, restart your browser and you're good to go. > > [florin@xxxxxxxxx florin]$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*xine* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 3 00:30 > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gxineplugin.so -> /usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so > > On Red Hat 9, i recommend to use the xine/gxine packages provided by > Freshrpms: > > http://shrike.freshrpms.net/ > > Of course, you still need xine-lib, since both xine and gxine are really > just front-ends to it. > ----- yup - that did it - freshrpms.net (apt-get) is awesome - thanks Craig
