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by **Lamo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 20:02

Looks as if I have every possible plug-in for firefox installed. Problem is when I try to watch divx, totem handles it. Which as anyone whose ever used totem before can tell you it's a piece of junk that won't play anything. Anyways here's a link to a sample divx video I'm trying to watch:

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/4914

I guess what I'm mainly wondering here is can I change what plug-in handles divx and if so which one should I use?

Thanks!

by **wolfden** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 21:04

Link works for me using totem, FF gets plugins from:

/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins

I don't know how to tell which one to be used, but I normally just remove the ones I don't like and move them to a different folder incase I ever need em again.

by **Lamo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 21:58

Thats weird when it opens i press play but nothing happens? just a black screen? I'm at a loss on how to even begin to fix this problem. Any suggestions on where to start?

Thanks.

by **wolfden** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 22:06

Try:

Code: Select all: USE="gtk quicktime divx gmedia realmedia wmp win32codecs nsplugins firefox xvid" emerge mplayerplug-in

by **Lamo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 22:38

Excellent! All is well now except one video I tried but that must be a bad server. Thanks a bunch for the help. Now I can move on to one of many more problems I'm having.

by **ShakaZ** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 0:36

I've found another method that works here :

I consists of installing the plugins that are in this archive to the firefox plugins folder.
Checking the archive first i saw it contained several mplayer-plugin files as well as libnullplugin.so & libunixprintplugin.so.
The 2 last ones are already in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins so no need for them.
I checked portage and installed the latest version of mplayerplug-in (3.45) & then checked /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins only to find out 4 of the mplayer-plugin files from the archive above were not present, 2 of them being for divx... so i added those missing files.
Reloaded the webpage & the embedded video worked fine

Still wonder why some files were missing

Err ok forget it... i just realised all of this was comparable to Wolfden's 1-line solution :lol:

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