[SOLVED] Firefox claims gecko-mediaplayer is not installed, but it IS.

Question

$ echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
$ ls -al
total 17136
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 9 15:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 25 05:31 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97736 Jul 6 08:39 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97736 Jul 6 08:39 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97736 Jul 6 08:39 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101832 Jul 6 08:39 gecko-mediaplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98056 Jul 6 08:39 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17040824 Oct 4 02:15 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Sep 18 11:07 nppdf.so -> /usr/lib/acroread/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
From my pacman.log
[2011-10-06 08:49] starting full system upgrade
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded dbus-core (1.4.14-1 -> 1.4.16-1)
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded dbus (1.4.14-1 -> 1.4.16-1)
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded dbus-glib (0.94-2 -> 0.98-1)
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded x264 (20110617-1 -> 20111001-1)
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded ffmpeg (20110923-1 -> 20111003-1)
[2011-10-06 08:51] upgraded mplayer (34007-1 -> 34174-1)
I've tried downgrading each of these as well as firefox and gecko-mediaplayer to no avail. I've also done quite a bit of searching without finding anything helpful. Any ideas are most welcome.
Last edited by bdjnk (2011-10-11 06:54:17)

Answer 1

I think I'm getting even closer. I've taken a look at my pluginreq.dat and discovered the following: (scroll to the last few lines)
gecko-mediaplayer.so:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so:$
:$
1309966775000:1:5:$
<a href="http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gecko-mediaplayer">Gecko Media Player</a> 1.0.4<br><br>Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using <a href="http://mplayerhq.hu">MPlayer</a>:$
mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.4:$
46
0:audio/x-mpegurl:MPEG Playlist:m3u:$
1:video/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
2:audio/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
3:video/x-mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
4:video/x-mpeg2:MPEG2:mpv2,mp2ve:$
5:audio/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
6:audio/x-mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
7:audio/mpeg2:MPEG audio:mp2:$
8:audio/x-mpeg2:MPEG audio:mp2:$
9:audio/mp4:MPEG 4 audio:mp4:$
10:audio/x-mp4:MPEG 4 audio:mp4:$
11:video/mp4:MPEG 4 Video:mp4:$
12:video/x-m4v:MPEG 4 Video:m4v:$
13:video/3gpp:MPEG 4 Video:mp4,3gp:$
14:audio/mpeg3:MPEG audio:mp3:$
15:audio/x-mpeg3:MPEG audio:mp3:$
16:audio/x-mpegurl:MPEG url:m3u:$
17:audio/mp3:MPEG audio:mp3:$
18:application/x-ogg:Ogg Vorbis Media:ogg,oga,ogm:$
19:application/ogg:Ogg Vorbis Media:ogg,oga,ogm:$
20:audio/x-ogg:Ogg Vorbis Audio:ogg,oga:$
21:audio/ogg:Ogg Vorbis Audio:ogg,oga:$
22:video/x-ogg:Ogg Vorbis Video:ogg,ogm:$
23:video/ogg:Ogg Vorbis Video:ogg,ogm:$
24:application/x-vlc-plugin:VLC plug-in:vlc:$
25:application/x-google-vlc-plugin:Google VLC plug-in::$
26:audio/flac:FLAC Audio:flac:$
27:audio/x-flac:FLAC Audio:flac:$
28:video/fli:FLI animation:fli,flc:$
29:video/x-fli:FLI animation:fli,flc:$
30:video/x-flv:Flash Video:flv:$
31:video/flv:Flash Video:flv:$
32:video/vnd.vivo:VivoActive:viv,vivo:$
33:audio/x-matroska:Matroska Audio:mka:$
34:video/x-matroska:Matroska Video:mkv:$
35:application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3:Nullsoft Streaming Video:nsv:$
36:audio/x-mod:Soundtracker:mod:$
37:audio/x-aiff:AIFF Audio:aif:$
38:audio/basic:Basic Audio File:au,snd:$
39:audio/x-basic:Basic Audio File:au,snd:$
40:audio/x-scpls:Shoutcast Playlist:pls:$
41:video/x-mng:Multiple-Image Network Graphics:mng:$
42:audio/webm:WEBM audio File:webm:$
43:audio/x-webm:WEBM audio File:webm:$
44:video/webm:WEBM video File:webm:$
45:video/x-webm:WEBM video File:webm:$
[INVALID]
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so:$
1309966775000:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so:$
1309966775000:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so:$
1309966775000:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so:$
1309966775000:$
This is at least indicative of what might be the source of the issue. But am I really alone as the only person who has this problem?