Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem

[Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz>]

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On Monday 24 April 2006 6:37 pm, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today, I updated my system.  Among the updates were a kernel update, a
> firefox update and an mplayer update.
>
> Everything seems to be working fine except that I can't get the mplayer
> plugin to work properly in Firefox.  After updating everything and
> compiling and booting to the new kernel, I rebuilt mplayer so that it
> would include the win32codecs, which it does not do by default.  After
> doing this, I reinstalled the mplayerplug-in.  After doing this, I
> recopied the mplayer.so files to my Firefox plugins directory.  I *did
> not* recompile Firefox after recompiling and booting to the new kernel.
> I've done everything I can think of, but when I try to play a feed from
> CNN or if I just try to play another video file in Firefox, it appears
> that mplayer is loading, but then "Stopped" is displayed.  And no
> buttons display for stop, start or pause.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Colleen
Yeah I been through this too. 
I get this error when trying to play movie files, sound file work fine
(Gecko:17960): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
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