[vlc] Re: Mozilla plugin for Mac ?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005, Peter Maersk-Moller wrote :
> Hi.
> 
> I had the impression that VLC had a Mozilla plugin for Mac X, but
> that it was missing some functionality compared to the plugin for
> Win/Linux.
> 
> According to http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/todo.html#t22
> 
>   Finish Mac Mozilla plugin
> 
>   Difficulty: Medium Urgency: Normal Platform:Mac OS X
>   The Mac mozilla plugin needs some more work to be useable. Basic 
>   funtionality
>   is working. However the video-output part needs some more work since it 
>   was
>   crashing. See svn history for the old code.
> 
> Does anyone know how to install it ? On Win/Linux you have to copy
> the dll/so and the xpt file to Mozilla/plugins/ and Mozilla/components,
> but I'm not really sure what to do on Mac and (not being a Mac expert)
> I don't seem to be able to find these files in the VLC Mac OSX
> binary distribution. Anybody who know how and what to do ?
> 

Well, there is no binary package available since it never really reached
a stable state... You can compile it by using the --enable-mozilla
configure option. However, a bug not fixed since the latest changes on
the video output system of the OSX port makes it quite useless (no
video...)

-- 
BigBen

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