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

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at gmail.com> writes:

> Tomáš Hnyk wrote:
>> I would like to point you once more to the Opera thread  
>> (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=154160&t=1180477231 -  
>> last three or four posts) where I reported this for the first time - some  
>> people seem to have done a fair amount of investigation to the issue.
>> Tomas Hnyk
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:48:35 +0200, <psmaas at opera.com> wrote:
>> 
>
> Yeah I read and even posted in that thread so far nothing is jumping out
> as something to do inside the plugin.
>
> This is the plugin that mplayerplug-in and gecko-mediaplayer were based
> off of. As far as I am concerned, if Opera is emulating the mozilla
> plugin interface then this demo should work.
>

Not necessarily.  There are certain parts of the mozilla plug-in
interface we do not emulate.  The most important things being that
we're not running a gtk main loop, and we don't implement XUL, XPCOM
or anything built on top of that.  At least some plug-ins depend on
these things (mplayer plug-in used to depend on gtk.)

I haven't been keeping an eye on the mozilla plug-in interface, so I
don't know if they still recommend making plug-ins depend on gtk.  I'm
pretty sure they used to do so.

eirik