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Hi,

Some research shows that I can copy Firefox plugins to Seamonkey's plugin folder. However; I cannot find such a folder. This is what I get;
Other searches like this also just give this. I am on Mageia 6 (a Mandrake/Mandriva fork) on an x86_64 Lenovo laptop. Baris Derin's YouTube Flash Video Player worked in Mageia 5, but after the upgrade wil not do so. I have downloaded Cisco's H.264 as well as the free x264 but cannot activate them as plugins.

Any ideas would really be welcome.

Thanks.

I don't know what you're trying to do, but,
npapi has been deprecated

Specifically I want to install a video player plugin for Seamonkey. I know you now have to have a codec compatible with H.264 as I have seen the situation around npapi.

There are many codecs, but VLC already has it according to my reading. VLC is also installed on my laptop as it came with the repositories. I need to make it recognizable to Seamonkey as a plugin. Again, all I read says it is possible.

I have downloaded and installed quite a few of the new codecs, but repeatedly run into the same problem. Mainly my lack of knowledge on how to do things in Linux.

I'm not sure what Firefox expects for video decoding. But Firefox officially dropped support for NPAPI plugins including VLC, as already noted.

So it's unlikely that the VLC plugin can fill your gap.

Thank you for the note on VLC, actually not very high on the list. Now I can ignore it. I've had a look at Cisco's H.264, x264, JCodec, WebM and others. The problem is that I did not know how to get SM to recognize the plugins. Got to YoLinux.com a little earlier this evening. The solution seems much easier than I thought. Much more straight forward. Oh yes, to all I could see SM does not have such a "plugins folder". /mozilla/plugins is active system wide, but you have to make a soft link to it from say /java/jre.

Main drawback. I am, maybe too, careful not to do things I guess may be the right thing and then crash the buggy again. I don't mind learning, but the time waste gets me.

Thanks, I still need to see the result of a few things. Will keep you posted.

VLC plugin is no more working with Firefox beyond version 52.4Oesr . It is also not working with Chrome or Edge. I still use it on IE.11 and Firefox 52.4Oesr on which I have prevented any update. I have built a large audio and video library over 3400 hours and over 2 TO, using HTML 5 and Javascript, and I am very concerned by the exposure raised by the new browsers dropping that plugin. Has someone identified an alternative to the marvelous VLC plugin ?

The story is that you have to use HTML5. All alternatives have the same problem as VLC.

Now you just have to wait for Web Assembly, if it ever takes off.