[vlc] Re: VLC and Mozilla Plugins

Wed Sep 21 11:16:31 CEST 2005

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 09:32 +0200, Pierre-Hugues PERET wrote:
> Hello,
> Mozilla plugin do work under firefox, you just have to install it by hand :
> - copy the 2 files from VLC/mozilla/ in your Firefox plugin directory

$grep vlc ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat 
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libvlcplugin.so:$
13:application/x-vlc-plugin:VLC plugin::$

$ls ~/.mozilla/plugins/ | grep vlc
libvlcplugin.so -> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libvlcplugin.s

> it worked for me..

It's there.. But it's not working :-(

> 
> At 13:12 21/09/2005 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >         I have limited success with using the VLC plugins to play nice on the
> >browsers. I've setup the page as follows :
> >
> >
> >================
> ><body>
> ><h1> My Sites Heading</h1>
> ><h2> VLC Mozilla video streaming </h2>
> ><embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin"
> >              name="video1"
> >              autoplay="yes" loop="yes" width="500" height="400"
> >              target="rtsp://192.168.10.100:5554/test" />
> ><br/>
> >     <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.play()'>Play
> >video1</a>
> >     <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.pause()'>Pause
> >video1</a>
> >     <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.stop()'>Stop
> >video1</a>
> >     <a href="javascript:;"
> >onclick='document.video1.fullscreen()'>Fullscreen</a>
> ></body>
> ></html>
> >
> >============
> >
> >The stream works, to an extent.
> >
> >Issues :
> >
> >1. Plugin will only work under Mozilla Browser and not Firefox Browser.
> >2. Very High CPU usage when playing the stream. (100%)
> >3. Upon stoping the stream, the whole browser window shuts off!
> >
> >Does anyone know if the nsplugins will work under firefox? Are there
> >specific things which I need to do to enabled it? What about the high
> >CPU usage?
> >
> >Thanks for any help in advance.
> >
> >--
> >Ow Mun Heng
> >Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM
> >98% Microsoft(tm) Free!!
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> >
> >
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