[Opera-Linux] operapluginwrapper for Opera 9.50

[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/27/07, Claudio Santambrogio <csant at opera.com> wrote:
> I am getting confused here - you are not saying that you use
> gecko-mediaplayer *instead* of Flash, to play Flash movies on Youtube?

So was I, so I made a couple of checks. The .swf filetype is handled by
"Shockwave flash" (libflashplayer.so) in both Opera and Firefox. The .flv
type is handled by gecko-mediaplayer in both browsers.

>
> > Youtube (randomly selected video):
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTqdjzhoPY
> >
> > On discovery it is most eloquent:
> > http://dsc.discovery.com/
> >

In both cases, right-clicking the player showed the Adobe Flash Player 9
context menu. So, on youtube, discovery and wikipedia (
http://wikimediafoundation.org/donate/2007/psa/), it is well the Adobe Flash
Player we are dealing with. However, I now get this odd behaviour (the
problem got solved, actually).

The only thing I changed was the path. Previously I had
/opt/netscape/plugins:
/opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins:
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

I kept only one (note that there was only one type of netscape-flash binary
in all of these paths, and several symlinks): /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins.

>ls -l  (6384)
total 380
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73104 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1188 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73104 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1188 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73104 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1188 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73424 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73104 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1188 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1188 2007-10-01 11:00 gecko-mediaplayer.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    29 2007-09-22 15:50 gxineplugin.so ->
/usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    60 2007-09-25 11:32 javaplugin.so ->
//usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/sun-jdk-1.6-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    39 2007-10-21 12:27 libflashplayer.so ->
/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    39 2007-10-16 13:12 libgnashplugin.so ->
/opt/netscape/plugins/libgnashplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    30 2007-09-25 17:41 nppdf.so ->
/opt/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so
>ls -l (6384) returned '0'

And, after restart, both the discovery and the youtube videos started to
play. Not as neat as in Firefox: 4-5 seconds periodic stalls of image and
sound, at those moments 100% CPU consumption. But they were working.

The only thing that I still see wrong is the following: I have one single
PATH enabled, which means one single "physical" file for libflashplayer.so.
In "Downloads", when I restarted Opera and the flash plugin started to work,
the list contained only _one_ choice each for libflashplayer.so in .swf and
gecko-mediaplayer.so in .flv. After having successfully played a couple of
videos on youtube and discovery, I now have _five_ choices for each file
type: gecko-mediaplayer.so, libgnashplugin.so and libflashplayer.so.
Although these all point to the same physical file, located in my PATH. So,
I wonder if Opera goes in cycles looking for the same binary? NOTE: I cannot
recreate this anymore. It happened after the first restart of Opera after
the PATH change.

To sum up, after having limited PATH to /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins only I am
able to play with Opera, as with Firefox, flash videos (.swf) on youtube,
discovery and wikipedia. The quality is beta+ (periodic image and sound
stalls, plus high CPU consumption at those moments). I'm using Opera
9.50Beta 1 and
netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1. There might be a problem with Opera searching in
cycles for the library.

> Not sure - so does gecko-mediaplayer work in Firefox, or not?  I think you
> are possibly talking about two separate issues with two different plugins
> - it would help if you could keep the two issues clearly separate.

To be sure of the player's integrity, I just unmerged and emerged
gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer again. In firefox, on wikipedia or
eurosport (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/formula-1/), it starts and plays
the sound but shows no video. In Opera, it fails to start any sound or
video.

Regards,
Liviu
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