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Gecko Media Player Compile Guide

Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to play media in a browser.

PRE-INSTALLATION

If you haven’t already installed the latest version of Gnome Mplayer, you should do that first: Gnome Mplayer Compile guide.

INSTALLATION

Download the version of Gecko Media Player you want (properly the latest and greatest): Download and save it to your Desktop.

Required Libraries

Next grab the required libraries to build and compile Gecko Media Player.

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev xulrunner-1.9.2-dev libgconf2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Compile & Install

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar zxf gecko-mediaplayer-*.tar.gz
cd gecko-mediaplayer-*
./configure --with-libcurl --with-gio --with-gconf --enable-new-libxul 
make
sudo make install

Done.

2011: 07/07
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Gnome Mplayer Compile Guide

Build and install the latest and greatest Gnome Mplayer

PRE-INSTALLATION

Medibuntu

First thing first, you may install non free codecs. If not, proceed to the next step.

To install Non free codecs, you have to add Medibuntu to your source list and install the codecs and libdvdcss2:

Code:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs libdvdcss2

Now install mplayer, you can use the one in the package manager or getting the daily build or install mplayer2.

Mplayer – daily build

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

Mplayer2

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ripps818/coreavc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

Done.

INSTALLATION

Download the version of Gnome Mplayer you want (properly the latest and greatest): Download and save it to your Desktop.

Assuming you want everything enable in Gnome Mplayer, just follow these commands. But if you want to disable some stuff in Gnome Mplayer, you need to remove the specific flags from the ./configure command and remove its library from the apt-get command.

Required Libraries

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libxss-dev libgconf2-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libnotify-dev libnautilus-extension-dev libgpod-dev libmusicbrainz3-dev libtunepimp-dev

Compile & Install

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar zxf gnome-mplayer-*.tar.gz
cd gnome-mplayer-*
./configure --with-libmusicbrainz3 --with-libgpod --with-libnotify --with-pulseaudio --with-alsa --with-gconf --with-dbus --with-gio --enable-nautilus
make
sudo make install

Done.

OTHER

Nvidia Video Decode and Presentation API

If you have a Nvidia 8xxx or higher the Gnome Mplayer can take advantage of your video card to play videos (Remember to enable restricted drivers for Nvidia in ‘Additional Drivers’).

Start Gnome-Mplayer, then press [ctrl]+[p].

In the video output box, choose vdpau.

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