GXine and the Gecko Media Player Plug-in

If you're running gXine and certain things like Apple trailers or videos from NASA aren't working, this is what you do. This was only tested using very recent snapshots of Xine, gXine and Firefox.
Grab the gecko-mediaplayer folder from ABS (community-->multimedia). Remove the 'gnome-mplayer' dependency, build and install. Then simply rebuild gXine and install. Order is important here. As far as I can tell the plug-in has to be built and installed after gecko-mediaplayer is installed in order for Firefox to get this right. This also works to a degree with the xine-plugin. By a degree I mean that Apple trailers work, but the stuff at NASA doesn't. It's also useful to note here that it doesn't work with totem-xine and the totem-plugin.
I did notify the developers of Gecko Media Player. It would be so cool if it worked as a Xine plug-in without the hack.

Thanks for the link. Tried it, but unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. It only removed the pop-up message and left a blank field in the browser window where the video clip was supposed to be.
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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