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Hy,

is it possible (and if so, how) to move the location of the VLC mozilla plugin to a directory other than /Library/Internet Plug-Ins or ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins?

Background: I would like to create a CD-ROM which contains Firefox (i.e. the Firefox.app directory), a Firefox-profile and the VLC plugin in order to be able to start Firefox with an ogg-enhanced html-file directly from CD.

What I have done so far:
- Compiled and installed VLC and the plugin myself (to /Applications/ and /Library/Internet Plug-Ins)
- Tested the plugin which works
- Removed /Applications/VLC.app (I wanted to know if the plugin depends on VLC.app which seems not to be the case)
- Tested the plugin which still works
- Moved the plugin to ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins (is no use for me (see above), but just to be sure)
- Tested the plugin which still works
- moved the plugin to some arbitary directory (here: ~/Desktop) and edited the file pluginreg.dat in the Firefox profile directory accordingly (i.e.: adjusted the location to the VLC plugin mentioned there)
- started Firefox and tested the plugin. Although it is correctly listed in "about:plugins" it does not work anymore. It complains about some dynlib file which it cannot find under /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/VLC Plugin.plugin
- Problem - by the way - remains, if I move the plugin into /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins - another directory that looks like it could contain plugins


Any hints appreciated, thanks.

Michael

VLC plugin currently depends on having it's libraries in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/

In the future we want to create a VLC framework so we won't be bothered anymore by issues like this.