Firefox plugin gecko-media-player (sp?)

[Almost-retired]

Greetings;

A member of another group I follow, for the TRS-80 Color Computer has posted a pile of .mp3's that were generated on his Coco, using the tools for midi that this 30 year old machine has, and recorded as .mp3's, and has posted their efforts on an online dropbox like site,
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/home/the-music>
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-performance>
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/bells-whistles-ii>

Clicking on one of the tunes opens a player screen that doesn't identify itself, so I have NDI what players screen it is, but it is mute, they don't play at all.

From the firefox plugins page I would assume that the mplayer stuff has now all been replaced by gecko-media-player, but the installed version, 0.9.6something dates from back in 2009!  So I hauled myself to their site & pulled the tar.gz of the 1.06 version, read the INSTALL which was pretty std, ./configure;make;make test; yadda yadda.

Unforch, ./configure bails out without getting very far:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for GMLIB... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gmlib >= 1.0.5) were not met:

No package 'gmlib' found

And exits.

Checking in synaptic, no such named packages are in our repo.

Can we get a prebuilt, more recent (V1.06) version of this gecko-media-player?  Please?

Cheers, Gene

[Just17]

Clicking on one of the tunes opens a player screen that doesn't identify itself, so I have NDI what players screen it is, but it is mute, they don't play at all.

Plays in Firefox here ..... tried this one ...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23059963/My%20Music/Little%20Red%20Riding%20Hood%20%28128%20kbps%29.mp3

Chromium claims there is a missing plugin ...

Konqueror does not display controls like Firefox, but does play the mp3 using Kmplayer.

Miodori plays the content and shows the controls.

[Almost-retired]

Your URL is similarly muted here.

I downloaded that batch of 128k mp3's and found amarok played them well, but typical of 128k mp3's the ear fatigue after about 15 minutes is a killer & I had to shut it down.

That may seem strange, to hear a 77YO with "shot out at the rifle range hearing" complain about that stuff, but I cannot tolerate .mp3's at most any baud rate too long, while an ogg, made at q7 or above, is much more tolerable, I cannot tell in A/B testing, the diff between the CD it came from and the ogg playback.  mp3's always have this "tweeter has a dragging voice coil" sound that is quite tiring to listen to for any great length of time.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene

[Yankee]

Can we get a prebuilt, more recent (V1.06) version of this gecko-media-player?  Please?

The newer gecko-media player didn't work as far as I can remember.   Older one in
the repo at least works.   

Any .mp3 player should play those.   Hope they're in the public domain.

Topic should be in Software, BTW.

FF

[Old-Polack]

Clicking on one of the tunes opens a player screen that doesn't identify itself, so I have NDI what players screen it is, but it is mute, they don't play at all.

Plays in Firefox here ..... tried this one ...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23059963/My%20Music/Little%20Red%20Riding%20Hood%20%28128%20kbps%29.mp3

Chromium claims there is a missing plugin ...

Konqueror does not display controls like Firefox, but does play the mp3 using Kmplayer.

Miodori plays the content and shows the controls.

Konqueror plays the mp3 here, with controls showing.

[YouCanToo]

Greetings;

A member of another group I follow, for the TRS-80 Color Computer has posted a pile of .mp3's that were generated on his Coco, using the tools for midi that this 30 year old machine has, and recorded as .mp3's, and has posted their efforts on an online dropbox like site,
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/home/the-music>
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-performance>
<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/bells-whistles-ii>

Clicking on one of the tunes opens a player screen that doesn't identify itself, so I have NDI what players screen it is, but it is mute, they don't play at all.

From the firefox plugins page I would assume that the mplayer stuff has now all been replaced by gecko-media-player, but the installed version, 0.9.6something dates from back in 2009!  So I hauled myself to their site & pulled the tar.gz of the 1.06 version, read the INSTALL which was pretty std, ./configure;make;make test; yadda yadda.

Unforch, ./configure bails out without getting very far:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for GMLIB... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gmlib >= 1.0.5) were not met:

No package 'gmlib' found

And exits.

Checking in synaptic, no such named packages are in our repo.

Can we get a prebuilt, more recent (V1.06) version of this gecko-media-player?  Please?

Cheers, Gene

Gene,  go into firefox preferences and select applications and change the MP3/Audio (audio/mpeg) from the mplayerplugin to clemetine and the files will play just fine.   This guy has done a really nice job with the music.

[Almost-retired]

Tisn't working here.  I may see if I can get FF to steer this stuff to Amarok.  OTOH now that I've heard them, very well done but ruined by 128k mp3 and its tweeter voice is dragging sound, it isn't terribly important that it work yet today.
In about:config, a search for .mp3 returns this list of drivel:

Humm, I guess I won't quote it as its not copy/pastable even line by line & ksnapshots output is likely 100x the size.  Screw it IOW.

I did change it to clementine, but it must take a restart of FF to make it effective because it made no diff right now.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene

[YouCanToo]

Tisn't working here.  I may see if I can get FF to steer this stuff to Amarok.  OTOH now that I've heard them, very well done but ruined by 128k mp3 and its tweeter voice is dragging sound, it isn't terribly important that it work yet today.
In about:config, a search for .mp3 returns this list of drivel:

Humm, I guess I won't quote it as its not copy/pastable even line by line & ksnapshots output is likely 100x the size.  Screw it IOW.

I did change it to clementine, but it must take a restart of FF to make it effective because it made no diff right now.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene

I did not have to restart firefox here to make it work. I just changed it in the preferences and it worked right away.  As for a search here in the about:config. Searching for '.mp3' returns nothing. I wonder what the difference is between your setup and mine is?

[Just17]

Konqueror plays the mp3 here, with controls showing.

That is because your Konqueror is using Mplayer, and as I mentioned mine uses Kmplayer 

You see the Mplayer controls .....  not the controls from the site, which FF shows here ... centre screen Play/Pause/Stop icons.

[Almost-retired]

I changed everything in the prefs that was related to audio/mpeg to clementine.  No detectable diff.  I just tried clementine by itself, works fine.

Thanks & Cheers YouCanToo, Gene

[Yankee]

I did change it to clementine, but it must take a restart of FF to make it effective because it made no diff right now.

In Firefox preferences in the general tab it should use select where to save.
A program is an option when those mp3's files appear.

In Firefox in applications tab you should select Clementine I guess.   Once you get
it to work once it should stay there automatically for mp3 or mp3 streams.

If not  ?     Try a new Firefox Window, it'll work then.