[vlc] VLC 0.9.2 bug: Mozilla plugin is not recognized by 64-bit Firefox 3.0.1

[Frank Bures]

Frank Bures wrote:
> System RHEL5, AMD64 (XL-62 CPU).
> VLC 0.9.2 compiled from source with no errors and working.
> 
> 'make install' puts the libvlcplugin.so into /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> Plugin copied to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> and
> /usr/lib/firefox3.0/plugins
> where all my other plugins are.
> 
> After Firefox restart 'about:plugins' in Firefox 3.0.1 does not show the
> VLC plugin.
> 
> Exactly the same process performed on a i386 RHEL5 system results in 32-bit
> Firefox 3.0.1 correctly loading the 32-bit VLC plugin.
> 
> Could the problem be that 'make install' loads VLC libraries into
> /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/local/lib64 on a x86_64 machine?
> 
> Has anyone got this plugin recognized on a x86_64 machine running 64-bit
> Firefox 3.0.1?  If yes, where do you have your libvlcplugin.so and
> libvlcplugin.la files?
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
> 
> 

One more thing:

If someone got this 64-bit plugin recognized, could you please post what
'locate libvlcplugin.so | xargs file'
returns on your system?

Thanks
Frank

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