-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Trevethan wrote: <snip>
It fell over when I added the symlink for the xineplugin.so. Removed the link again, worked fine. Solution found!!
Mind you, it could have been one starting with 'a' not 'x'?! Mplayer and Kaffeine plugins work so I have just left the rogue out.
Hope the logic outline helps someone?
Hi Paul, I'm sure this procedure will help a lot of people who are experiencing similar problems. I'd add, though, the need to watch for overlap between the plug-ins being installed. Not paying attention to these details can lead to unexpected/undesired behavior and even contention between applications. For example, Kaffeine is based on the xine engine, so installing both the xine and kaffeine plug-ins is kind of redundant. The same strategy applies to mozplugger and mplayerplug-in because there is a fair amount of ovelap between them in terms of the types of media files and streams they're configured by default to handle. In this regard, it helps to know that the first plug-in listed in about:plugins will be the first to "see" a requirement and act upon it, but that other plug-ins may also react, causing two applications to launch and compete for the same media. If they don't actually contend, but cooperate, note that mozplugger comes before mplayer in the plug-ins table, so don't be surprised if mozplugger calls up a different application when you're expecting MPlayer to launch.
This does raise a question in my mind about the use of /usr/lib/browser-plugins though. Firefox obviously does not look there, in my case anyway, so what does. I thought it was a new 'central repository' that all SuSE browsers under SuSE would use. Is that only if you install from SuSE dvd perhaps?
That would be the case, if I understand the system correctly. SuSE packages are built to know about and use /usr/lib/browser-plugins but browsers from other sources would need to be adapted manually. regards, - - Carl - -- ____________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Key #0x68396713 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCG2ntusxgymg5ZxMRAilNAJ98QPyZpF+bDQcdWXZSiTpBqZ/U/gCeNiqV LLXUKX5TZGzav98ZKp/0oNk= =Fq9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----