FS#6076 - vlc mozilla plugin

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Not Important (pholie) - Monday, 25 December 2006, 19:04 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 25 December 2006, 22:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Could we have VLC player with mozilla plugin? I was able to compile the plugin using this howto: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/mozilla-plugin-compile.html

PKGBUILD attached
(application/octet-stream)    PKGBUILD (2.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Friday, 19 January 2007, 23:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  after testing it a bit I must say that the other plugins are way more capable and vlc is not in their league yet. So until this isn't changed I see no need in dealing with the whole hassle.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Monday, 25 December 2006, 23:19 GMT
NO, bad idea.
do not build vlc with the plugin, unless you can make it an separeted package. you do not want 3 different plugins for video with mozilla.
Comment by Not Important (pholie) - Tuesday, 26 December 2006, 01:35 GMT
ok, let's make a separate package vlc-plugin which would only depend on vlc.



Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 00:55 GMT
I wont build vlc anyway until I haven't found a way to build th new wxgtk _with_ gtk1 support which we still need for audacity. So far I can just get the gtk2 versions build(with and without unicode support) but gtk1 fails. After that we can try to get on this one. But please consider that it takes a long time to build vlc, to build it twice completely just for the separated plugin does not sound too good to me.
Comment by Börje Holmberg (linfan) - Friday, 19 January 2007, 11:28 GMT
Thanks for the PKGBUILD. If it is not to be included in arch, it is at least good the ppl that need it can build it. There are files that neither mplayer-plugin or totem-plugin can handle and, besides, mplayer-plugin acts like a real bully - it tends to override other plugins, despite it cannot handle them :( mplayer-plugin is definitely thumbs down on my puters.

One more thing to be added is that you will need to copy over /var/abs/extra/multimedia/vlc/vlc.install and /var/abs/extra/multimedia/vlc/vlc.desktop to the directory containing the PKGBUILD before running makepkg. If you have seamonkey installed, you will also have to uninstall it before building the vlc-0.8.6 package. You can reinstall it afterwards.
Comment by Börje Holmberg (linfan) - Friday, 19 January 2007, 14:10 GMT
Well, after trying vlc out a bit, I have to admit, that it is very beta. It cannot handle quicktime correctly and there is no sound for .mov files. It also crashes FF frequently. Mplayer-plugin doesn't get along with it either. But it might as well be firefox that is crappy.

I edited the PKGBUILD and installed 0.8.6a, which is a bit more secure than 0.8.6, but it did not resolve the sound and crash problems. It seems to be a common issue according to the folks on videolan.org.

So, I will continue with uninstalling and reinstalling mplayer-plugin when I need either vlc or mplayer. Anyway, it is better than nothing.

linfan
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Friday, 19 January 2007, 19:26 GMT
How did you guys get that build at all
I bails for me on the libfaad plugin
Comment by Börje Holmberg (linfan) - Friday, 19 January 2007, 21:14 GMT
I got it from here. I too have come to the conclusion that it is faad2 that fails. Tried to compile faad2-2.5.tar.gz but keep getting the error:

Making package: faad2 2.5-1 (Fri Jan 19 22:10:41 CET 2007)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Using local copy of faad2-2.5.tar.gz
==> WARNING: MD5sums are missing or incomplete. Cannot verify source integrity.
==> Extracting Sources...
==> tar --use-compress-program=gzip -xf faad2-2.5.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
==> ERROR: Failed to extract faad2-2.5.tar.gz
==> Aborting...
_________

This is pretty annoying, but I am but a amateur and stobborn as hell - hehe. Maybe i need some faac, too - dunno really.

Also tried to install vlc-0.8.6a with the faad2-cvs from AUR, but with that version - no sound and frequent crashes.

Linfan

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