Integrate mplayer/xine into Firefox?
Tue, 2006-01-24 23:27
When I visit some sites they have audio or video that requires an audio/video player to play, and the file is embeded into the page source, so it it expects a mediaplayer to be able to play them.
So I'm wondering how I can integrate mplayer or xine into firefox so that I can play media files without the need to download and play the file localy.
I'm using FF 1.0.7 if that's any use.
dylunio
You ought to upgrade to Firefox 1.5.
Anyway, Xine's site says there's a plugin which you can get from "xine-plugin module from xine cvs." Kaffeine also has a Gecko plugin, but you might wanna apply this patch that makes Kaffeine's plugin open WAVs and FLACs.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to reccommend upgrading to firefox 1.5 . I find it a little bit less stable than 1.0.7... Stable enough though.
Anyway, I know for sure mplayer plugin works fine with 1.0.7.
Thanks both, I've upgraded FireFox to Deerpark (1.5) and I've installed mplayerplug-in which seems to be working.
dylunio
I'm using Firefox 1.5 and it's mostly fine although it sometimes does a little bit strange things, like when I am saving an image it tends to block freeze for a few moments. Still, it's way beyond Firefox 1.0.x in its features and speed and that's why I use it.
As for mplayer and xine integration I don't really care myself as I like to choose where to play stuff myself so I usually just copy the URL I want to stream music or video from.
I don't like watching movies in the browser, but gxine has a plugin. Was quite annoying, I couldn't figure out how to disable it.
NoScript
er crap.. wrong thread..
uh, yeah I've got mplayer in my FF.. I had it playing YouTube videos are one point also..then it broke