VLC PLugin Firefox UBUNTU Problem [solved]

[xtophe]

If you compile yourself vlc 0.9.0 from git it's normal that synaptic is not showing it to you.

I'm not sure the mozilla plugin is installed at the good place by "make install" for your system. You have the prefix issue ( /usr/ vs. /usr/local/) and it might be installed in a "mozilla" dir whereas fifrefox might look in a "firefox" dir.

Look where mozilla-plugin-vlc installed itself and copy or symlink the one you compilled to the good place

[coldfire]

If you compile yourself vlc 0.9.0 from git it's normal that synaptic is not showing it to you.

I'm not sure the mozilla plugin is installed at the good place by "make install" for your system. You have the prefix issue ( /usr/ vs. /usr/local/) and it might be installed in a "mozilla" dir whereas fifrefox might look in a "firefox" dir.

Look where mozilla-plugin-vlc installed itself and copy or symlink the one you compilled to the good place

the prefix should be "--prefix=/usr" and not as for /usr/local/ ?

[thannoy]

If your Firefox is installed in /usr, thje better way is to use --prefix=/usr ; yes. Like this, the plugin will be installed in /usr/../plugin wich is more likely to be the good folder. (VLC will be installed in /usr/bin too)
Otherwise, you can copy the plugin .so file to the right plugin directory.

You can let default --prefix (/usr/local), in this case there is much more probabilities you will have to copy the /usr/local/../plugin/vlcplugin.so file in your good firefox plugin directory.

[coldfire]

If your Firefox is installed in /usr, thje better way is to use --prefix=/usr ; yes. Like this, the plugin will be installed in /usr/../plugin wich is more likely to be the good folder. (VLC will be installed in /usr/bin too)
Otherwise, you can copy the plugin .so file to the right plugin directory.

You can let default --prefix (/usr/local), in this case there is much more probabilities you will have to copy the /usr/local/../plugin/vlcplugin.so file in your good firefox plugin directory.

nops...there is no *.so in either /mozilla/plugins/... or /usr/lib/firefox/... or /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/ BUT i am sure that it will install the libvlcplugin.so in any of the above plugins folders when i will use the already provided "mozilla-plugin-vlc" in UBUNTU8.0.4 by either "sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc" or using Synaptic.

what i want is to install the one that i have built!

[coldfire]

i installed the default mozilla-plugin-vlc from Synaptic. But I am still unable to install the source code version of VLC that i have installed after "make install". I have copied the libvlcpluing.so in the firefox/plugins directory, its working but not the one under development !!!

I just need to know that "how can i install the latest vlc 0.9.0 as a mozilla plugin to play videos in firefox" ? has anybody else able to do that?

thanks in advance

[coldfire]

i installed vlc 0.9.0-test2 (0.9.0-git20080708-1 (nightlies.videolan.org)) (here)as a mozilla plugin ..i dont know how and in which attempt!! anyways, when I run the MPEG4 file in FF3, this error used to come

root@jars-desktop:~# firefox -gdb
argn=pluginspage, argv=http://www.videolan.org
argn=type, argv=application/x-vlc-plugin
argn=version, argv=VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2
argn=toolbar, argv=true
argn=name, argv=vlc
argn=height, argv=480
argn=width, argv=640
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.0-test2 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file /home/jars/.cache/vlc/plugins-04041e.dat
[00000001] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/local/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: module bank initialized, found 89 modules
[00000001] main libvlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 FPU
[00000001] main libvlc debug: looking for memcpy module: 0 candidates
[00000001] main libvlc error: no memcpy module matched "any"
[00000132] main interaction debug: thread started
[00000132] main interaction debug: thread 2968750992 (Interaction control) created at priority 0 (interface/interaction.c:379)
[00000134] main preparser debug: thread started
[00000134] main preparser debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000134] main preparser debug: thread 2960358288 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:80)
[00000135] main fetcher debug: thread started
[00000135] main fetcher debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000135] main fetcher debug: thread 2951965584 (fetcher) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:110)
[00000133] main playlist debug: thread started
[00000133] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000133] main playlist debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
[00000133] main playlist debug: rebuild done - 0 items, index -1
[00000133] main playlist debug: thread 2943572880 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/thread.c:119)
[00000136] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000136] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000136] main interface debug: thread started
[00000136] main interface debug: thread 2935180176 (interface) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:164)
[00000138] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 0 candidates
[00000138] main interface error: no interface module matched "inhibit,none"
[00000138] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00000001] main libvlc error: interface "inhibit,none" initialization failed
[00000139] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 0 candidates
[00000139] main interface error: no interface module matched "screensaver,none"
[00000139] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00000001] main libvlc error: interface "screensaver,none" initialization failed
*** LibVLC Exception not handled: No active input
Set a breakpoint in 'libvlc_exception_not_handled' to debug.
[00000133] main playlist debug: adding item `fridayafternext_http.mp4' ( file:///home/jars/Desktop/mediafiles/fridayafternext_http.mp4 )
[00000133] main playlist debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
[00000133] main playlist debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1
[00000141] main demux warning: no access_demux module matched "file"
[00000147] main demux warning: no demux module matching "mp4" could be loaded
[00000140] main input error: no suitable demux module for `file/:///home/jars/Desktop/mediafiles/fridayafternext_http.mp4'

FF Plugin Error

any feedback would be appreciated.

I have also recently make another build of the latest code but same error!

[coldfire]

i actually found that if you play a media file with audio stream first and then video second (as shown in vlc media-information option), i get this error of "no access module... but if i use media file with mp4v or any video format first and audio as second, the error doesnt come...and after that when it plays successfully i can play the other file as well (with audio as stream0 and video as stream1).....i would be wrong in this but just a noobs observation! but it doesnt happen sometimes and i get the error on both as well !

[coldfire]

ok its solved now, i have removed the line from sources.list which was getting everytime the latest build (importing unwanted code that was maybe bugged), i only need to work on current build. unistallation/installtion worked out ok.