[wplug] mozilla firefox and realplayer plugin

Brandon Kuczenski brandon at 301south.net
Tue Jul 6 19:48:11 EDT 2004


> Hello,
> 
> I have mozilla firefox installed at
> /opt/firefox-installer. I have a softlink to the
> firefox executable at /usr/bin. It works great except
> the fact that it do not load any realplayer plugin.
> Mozilla works perfect and also the konquerror. But I
> can not have streaming audio in firefox.
> 
> I get an error message like
> 
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/browser-plugins/rpnp.so
> [/usr/lib/browser-plugins/rpnp.so: undefined symbol:
> __pure_virtual]
> 
> Can any one suggest a way out.
> 

>From http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html :

"The RealPlayer plugin does not work with versions of Mozilla compiled 
with gcc 3.x.   Bug 213234 has an unsupported workaround."


I haven't tried the workaround, because I don't know exactly what it 
does, and the poster seems to think it's dangerous:

"A obvious hack (i've posted to other mozilla bugs) to get around this 
problem is so:

Find an libgcc.a from a gcc-2.95.x compiler, and then

 % ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \
    /full/path/to/RealPlayer/rpnp.so \
    /some/path/to/an/old/libgcc.a

and then use rpnphack.so in your plugin directory.

I do not condone this method, but it doeswork."

I don't know if this is at issue for you or not.  Frankly, I don't even 
know if it's at issue for *me*.  But I couldn't get realplayer to work 
either as a plugin.

-Brandon




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