Mozplugger in Quirky 003

January 06, 2010 — BarryK

Quirky 003 has a radically different architecture for handling multimedia. There's no xine/gxine, gstreamer or mplayer.

There is ffmpeg and the mozplugger browser plugin is supposed to launch 'ffplay' to play embedded video (and maybe audio) in web pages.

I created a test html file, using the suggestion from technosaurus, posted here:
http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201001/mozplugger.html

Yeah, ffplay plays the video, as a separate window. I want it to be swallowed into the web page, so I edited /etc/mozpluggerrc:

video/mpeg:mpeg,mpg,mpe:MPEG animation

video/x-mpeg:mpeg,mpg,mpe:MPEG animation

video/x-mpeg2:mpv2,mp2ve:MPEG2 animation

video/mp4:mp4:MPEG4 animation

video/msvideo:avi:AVI animation

video/x-msvideo:avi:AVI animation

video/fli:fli,flc:FLI animation

video/x-fli:fli,flc:FLI animation

application/x-mplayer2:*:Windows Media video

video/x-ms-asf:asf,asx:Windows Media video

video/x-ms-wm:wm:Windows Media video

video/x-ms-wmv:wmv:Windows Media video

video/x-ms-wvx:wvx:Windows Media video

video/x-ms-asf-plugin:*:Window Media video

video/ogg:ogg:OGG stream with video

video/x-ogg:ogm,ogv:OGG stream with video

	stream swallow(ffplay) : ffplay "$file"



audio/mp3:mp3:MPEG audio

audio/x-mp3:mp3:MPEG audio

audio/mpeg2:mp2:MPEG audio

audio/x-mpeg2:mp2:MPEG audio

audio/mpeg3:mp3:MPEG audio

audio/x-mpeg3:mp3:MPEG audio

audio/mpeg:mpa,abs,mpega:MPEG audio

audio/x-mpeg:mpa,abs,mpega:MPEG audio

audio/x-ogg:ogg:OGG audio

application/x-ogg:ogg:OGG audio

application/ogg:ogg:OGG audio

audio/x-flac:flac:FLAC audio

application/x-flac:flac:FLAC audio

audio/basic:au,snd:Basic audio file

audio/x-basic:au,snd:Basic audio file

audio/wav:wav:Microsoft wave file

audio/x-wav:wav:Microsoft wave file

audio/x-pn-wav:wav:Microsoft wave file

audio/x-pn-windows-acm:wav:Microsoft wave file

audio/x-ms-wax:wax:Windows Media Audio

audio/x-ms-wma:wma:Windows Media Audio

	stream : ffplay "$file"

I then deleted /root/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat, which is recommended whenever /etc/mozpluggerrc is changed, then started SeaMonkey, opened the test html file, and YAY, embedded video!

Note that the "stream" parameter means that ffplay can take a URL directly. Without "stream", the video would be downloaded entirely first, then ffplay would be launched.

Not sure what to do about those audio files. Maybe most of those should be played with aplay?

Anyway, I want to play some more with this. Anyone know of URLs where I can test this further?...
That is, a variety of embedded formats. Or, anyone really interested and wants to setup /etc/mozpluggerrc for all situations? -- go for it!

Comments

Inkscape unable to save
Username: tozers1
Hello Barry, Thanks for bring to us Quirky. The Inkscape application has a bug regarding the save functionality. If you create a new draw and then save it, it seems that it is ok but when the application is closed, the tool pops up a window asking to save it again (as if was not saved). After saving the document again the application closes without problem, but the file is not there. I have experienced this problem with puppy430 and 431.

Streaming video still does not play
Username: Terryphi
"Try http://news.bbc.co.uk .Click on LIVE BBC NEWS CHANNEL on the red banner at the top. Video still does not play using your amended /etc/mozpluggerrc . I have the same problem with videos at http://guardian.co.uk .

24:25
Username: Terryphi
"Disciple: it must be the warp factor we add here in Wales. ;) I presume it is a bug in PPLOG.

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