[Opera-Linux] mplayer plugin with opera 9.5 build 1589

[Pomarede Nicolas]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Kevin DeKorte wrote:

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> Pomarede Nicolas wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> with 9.50, the changelog indicates that opera is implementing the needed
>> gtk loop for some plugins.
>>
>> Indeed, flash player 9 is working much better (also it sometimes seems to
>> stop working until you press reload several time on the page).
>>
>> But as I understand it, mplayer plugin should now work directly with opera
>> 9.50 (that is, the gtk2 build, not the one build with only X).
>>
>> But when using it, I get an error that libgtk-x11-2.0.so could not be
>> loaded.
>>
>> I have /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0, but no libgtk-x11-2.0.so.
>>
>> And doing ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so, I have :
>>
>>          linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xbfffe000)
>>          libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e5c000)
>>          libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7e05000)
>>          libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7dfd000)
>>          libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7de4000)
>>          libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7dd4000)
>>          libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7dc3000)
>>          libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb79f7000)
>>  	...
>>
>> So, I don't understand why opera tries to loadlibgtk-x11-2.0.so and not
>> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. Also the plugin works under firefox, so all the
>> libraries are present on my PC.
>>
>> Did someone succeeded in using mplayer plugin gtk2 with opera 9.50 ?
>>
>> thanks
>
> gecko-mediaplayer with gnome-mplayer is the recommended plugin to use
> with Opera.
>
> You can get them here
>
> http://dekorte.homeip.net/download
>
> I wrote mplayerplug-in and also have written gecko-mediaplayer and have
> been having some success with the Opera Alpha and the gecko-mediaplayer
> cvs code. I have been working with the Opera plugin team to get any
> issues we find worked out. So while not perfect we are making great
> progress.
>
> Kevin
>

Thanks for answering ; in fact I forgot to say that I tried 
gecko-mediaplayer plugin too, thinking it would work better, but I have 
the exact same error about libgtk-x11-2.0.so.

So, I don't know what's happening (but it's a very good news to know you 
worked on this with opera, you're plugin is really good !)