Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142657
/etc/mozpluggerrc not adjusted to FC3 "realities"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
Description of problem: /etc/mozpluggerrc delegates actions to various programs which are not likely to be available on a system. While it can be expected that at lest some of these can be installed later from "outside sources" a something which has better chances to work right away would be nice. For example 'xanim' seems to mostly vanished. What instead? First choice for tiff files is 'gqview', followed by 'xv', while 'gthumb' is not mentioned at all (could be used?). 'acroread' instead of 'xpdf' or 'gpdf' opens up a list of apps for pdf handling. There is 'gv' and 'pageview' for Postcript files but no 'ggv'. 'realplay' is supposed to handle various realaudio streams instead of 'hxplay'. In the last case one likely has already nphelix.so, which will take over the job, but if yes then maybe /etc/mozpluggerrc should have a relevant comment instead? There is a chance that I will edit that file anyway but it would be nice if one would need less of such editing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozplugger-1.6.2-1
:wqI have already adjusted the /etc/mozpluggerrc for FC5 release. It should now work better. For Xanim, i have not found the replacement yet, but it does not hurt if it still stays in the config file. I still prefer Helixplayer because it's included in FC release.
> I still prefer Helixplayer because it's included in FC release. The problem was, of course, that at the time of the original report mozplugger expected to find RealPlayer. Yes, /etc/mozpluggerrc did change quite substantially from the one availble in 2004. 'xine' will play various files which 'xanim' used to - or at least some of them. I know that it is not in a distro but at least possible to fine. The current /etc/mozpluggerrc will actually try 'mplayer', 'totem' or 'xine' for various video files.