[Opera-Linux] video playback using the mplayerplugin succesor "Gecko media player" is broken due to a bug in Opera

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Tomáš Hnyk <tomashnyk at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I recently discovered that a succesor to mplayerplugin that should
> work with Opera is developed, namely the Gecko media player, the
> homepage  being: http://dekorte.homeip.net/download/gecko-mediaplayer/.
> However, it, as of now, works not very well with Opera. Try to go to
> apple.com/trailers and see for yourself - the trailer will not show,
> only  after you hit F5 and sometimes even then it will just display a
> black  rectangular window in place where the trailer should be.
> The developer says it is due to a bug in Opera: "I've seen this myself
> it seems to be caused by a bug in Opera. It is not
> sending the SetWindow event properly."
> I filled a bug (266776) about it as well. And there is a related
> thread on myopera forums:
> http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=154160&t=1180306042.
> However, could some please confirm this?
> Tomas Hnyk
>

There's way too much black magic in plug-in-land.  The whole plug-in
specification is really broken when it comes to interoperability.  And
nobody follows the spec anyway (which just makes it worse).

eirik