libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

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libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby martin » 04 May 2011 19:08

Is some new version of libvlcplugin.so ? libvlcplugin crashing with firefox 4 under Ubuntu 11.04. Installed VLC 1.1.9

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 05 May 2011 08:40

FF4 breaks compatibility with the VLC plugin. That is only one more reason why someone needs to step up to maintain the VLC plugin (that's not going to be me).
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby martin » 06 May 2011 08:42

FF4 breaks compatibility with the VLC plugin. That is only one more reason why someone needs to step up to maintain the VLC plugin (that's not going to be me).
I heard, that man, who made this mozilla plugin left VLC team 1 year ago ? Is it truth ?

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 06 May 2011 12:14

No, it's not true. It's closer to 3 years ago now.
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby martin » 06 May 2011 14:21

and sources are available ?

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 06 May 2011 17:37

and sources are available ?
Ahaha, very funny...

Yes, they are.
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby martin » 06 May 2011 18:56

and sources are available ?
Ahaha, very funny...

Yes, they are.

very funny ... why is not this plugin updated, if you have all ? This plugin had problems with firefox 3.x under linux min. 1/2 years - but not so fatal, as now with ff4.x

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 06 May 2011 22:39

The plugin is not updated because nobody updates the plugin.
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby tokland » 02 Jun 2011 13:52

Doing this "mv+patch" worked for me, I got the vlc plugin (v1.1.9) to work with Firefox 4.0

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361263#c6

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Jun 2011 16:43

Fixed in 1.1.10
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby mockingbird » 07 Jun 2011 19:35

I can confirm that the new version doesn't crash firefox, but it doesn't work either!!! Just a black screen. VLC works fine otherwise.

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby mockingbird » 07 Jun 2011 19:57

Also, fullscreen via doubleclick still doesn't function.

I tried using mozplugger instead, it works fine. I wonder if there's a way to implement controls using Javascript and Greasemonkey.

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 07 Jun 2011 20:08

Nobody claimed that fullscreen was fixed, nor the crashes. A patch was proposed to fix the NPP_Initialize bug and it was applied. No other patches so no other fixes.
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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby mockingbird » 31 Jul 2011 21:16

Now that fullscreen has been fixed for the Win32 plugin, any chance of the team resurrecting the libvlcplugin.so?

I noticed that there was an updated versionof mozilla-plugin-vlc, and it works for small videos:
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html

...though with larger DivX or xVid, like half-hour TV shows, I'm just staring at a black window, and the fullscreen still doesn't work using FF 5 and KDE 4.

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Re: libvlcplugin.so: undefined symbol: NPP_Initialize

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 31 Jul 2011 22:09

I guess the guy working on the web plugins recently is sponsored. And if so, I doubt the sponsor cares about Linux.

This is purely speculative. But the point is, if you want the Mozilla plugin to work on Linux, help yourself.
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