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

[Daniel Eckl]

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen schrieb:
> 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
>   

Hi Eirik!

How can I read your writing? Is this a confirmation of the supposed bug
in opera? I assume so.

So in other words you mean:
"Everyone writes buggy plugins, so we can legitimately write a buggy
plugin runner. Above that I cannot catch on with this stuff anymore,
because it's a mess."

???

_In case I read your writing correct_: Sorry, but this saying is not
acceptable. If someone writes a buggy plugin: his fault. If opera writes
a buggy implementation: Operas fault!
With your point of view you make the story go round and round. Soon a
plugin dev will say "Why should I write spec conform plugins? The
browser developers don't follow the spec anyway!"

Please investigate this problem and if there is a bug in opera, please
confirm that in round terms and _if it's possible_, then please fix it,
so we can start shouting at the plugin developers instead.

Mainly the missing or not good working media player plugins for opera
linux are a pain in the neck, so I really would like to see more efforts
in trying to make them run better.

Thank you!

Best,
Daniel