I've been having trouble with mplayerplug-in crashing seamonkey when viewing some (actually quite a few) sites with video. The crashes are a bit unpredictable as it doesn't always happen on the same video and sometimes the crash is delayed to some time after I've played a video (never before playing a video though).
I've used version 3.40 released 2007-Mar-21. Upon analysis, I think the problem may be mplayer itself. I'm using the MPlayer-1.0pre7try2 version in the book, but it is quite dated. My system shows a download date for the package as Dec 20, 2005. Looking at mplayer's svn, they have a tag for MPlayer1.0pre8 on Oct 22, 2006 (BLFS Ticket #2019) and MPlayer-1.0rc1try2 on Dec 31, 2006. Looking more at svn, there seems to be active development going on as some entries are yesterday. I've got a couple of questions to throw out: 1. Has anyone else seen the browser crash problem with nplayerplug-in? 2. Should we update mplayer now to 1.0rc1try2 or wait for 1.0. It seems that they encourage using direct svn releases. I have not seen any schedule for a 1.0 release and I suspect they will say, if asked, "when its ready". 3. Should mplayerplug-in be added to the book. If so, should it be a separate section? In Video Utilities? In Graphical Web Browsers? Or should it just be in the wiki? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
