[MPlayer-users] Problem in starting mplayer-plugin

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 28 March 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi all folks,
> 
> RH7.3
> Mozilla
> =======
> 
> I have following packages installed in my system
> 
> mplayerplug-in-0.60-1
> mplayer-skin-default-1.6-3
> mplayer-common-0.90rc4-2
> mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2
> 
> mplayer is running
> 
> Whenever I clicked a video/tv clip on a website, mplayer-plugin started 
> to load.  But finally a blank screen will result.  Another time mozilla 
> will close automatically

mplayer-plugin I think requires mplayer, not mplayer-gui. At least using
the GUI version doesn't make sense to me in this case, so it's probably
looking for 'mplayer' binary and since mplayer-gui doesn't provide one, it
fails.

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