1. Figure out how to get the most up to date versions of the various media players working as well as there plug-ins. Completed
2. Figure out how to get all the various media players to work embedded if possible and externally otherwise. Completed
3. Figure out which players supported which formats and which ones played each particular format better. Completed
4. Figure out how to link each player to the appropriate media extension. Completed
5. Share my findings with the community in the most simple form I can. Work in progress.
What I have come up with.
Build and Install the latest media players and plug-ins for them. Use media player Connectivity to link the corresponding players to the proper media files. Get as much embedded support as I can. And for the sites where I cant get embedded players to work use LiveStream Media Server to stream the video's to a temp directory so the various players will be able to play them locally while they are downloading. Attach LiveStream to Media Player Connectivity so at the click of a play button the said file will be streamed to a temp directory where it will be auto launch by the appropriate player.
If you have not already go ahead and follow billbs repository guide to get the PS3bodega repo and others installed just click the link below and follow his guide
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3017
Step One Installing development packages and codecs required for this multimedia solution. Open up the terminal and run the commands below.
Switch to root in the terminal.
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su
enter your root password
Copy and past this into the terminal and wait for it to ask if it's OK to install and choose y for yes and hit enter. Then go off to wonderland for a little while and when you return hopefully it will be finished installing.
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yum install libid3tag libid3tag-devel libmad libmad-devel ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel libdvdnav libdvdread libdvdnav-devel libdvdread-devel a52dec a52dec-devel qt4 qt4-devel fribidi fribidi-devel taglib taglib-devel lua lua-devel libdvbpsi libdvbpsi-devel live libcdio libcdio-devel libcddb libcddb-devel mpeg2dec mpeg2dec-devel x264 x264-devel SDL_mixer SDL_mixer-devel SDL_image SDL_image-devel SDL_ttf SDL_ttf-devel SDL_sound SDL_sound-devel pulseaudio pulseaudio-devel pulseaudio-libs pulseaudio-libs-devel avahi avahi-devel madplay libmodplug libmodplug-devel fluidsynth fluidsynth-devel live speex speex-devel libtar libtar-devel xmms xmms-skins firefox *gstreamer* smpeg smpeg-devel twolame twolame-devel lame lame-devel twolame twolame-devel libcda-devel xvidcore xvidcore-devel flac flac-devel
Building the latest VLC and Mozilla-VLC
Right click on the link below and save it to your desktop. This will download vlc-0.9.8a!
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 8a.tar.bz2
Once It's completed downloading right click on the vlc-0.9.8a.tar.bz2 and choose extract here. Now right click on the vlc-0.9.8a folder created by extracting the tar.bz2 and choose open in terminal. Run the commands below to configure and build vlc and mozilla-vlc.
Note (.configure prefix=/usr --enable-mozilla --with-mozilla-pkg) is one command...
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./configure prefix=/usr --enable-mozilla --with-mozilla-pkg
make
su
enter root password
make install
Building and Installing the latest Mplayer and Mplayerplug-in
Right click on the link below and choose save to desktop to get the latest mplayer src.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... ot.tar.bz2
Right click on the mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 and choose extract here. Now right clcik on the mplayer folder created from extracting the mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 and choose open in terminal. Build it with the commands below.
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./configure
make
su
enter root password
make install
Right click on the link below and choose save file and save it to your desktop. This will download the mplayerplug-in.
http://www.link.comming.soon.com
Once its finished downloading open the terminal and execute the commands below.
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su
enter root password
tar -xf /home/your-username/Desktop/mplayer-plugin.tar.gz
cd '/home/your-username/Desktop/mplayer plugin/mozilla/plugins'
cp mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in.xpt mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt mplayerplug-in-rm.so mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt mplayerplug-in-wmp.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Thats it now you have the latest mplayer and mplayer-plugin as well as the latest vlc and mozilla vlc. I'll put a guide up for totem soon as well.
Go to your home folder and select the view tab, This will show the hidden files/folders. Look for the .mozilla directory and right click on it and choose to create archive this will back up your current firefox settings, to your home directory. This will be useful for the Media Player Connectivity removal/changes.
Double click the link below and choose installl option. This will install Media Player Connectivity.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... 9.1-fx.xpi