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FedoraNEWS: HOWTO: Building mplayerplug-in RPM for Firefox

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2004

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung
for this link. ]

“mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play
digital media from websites…

“Currently, the official RPM package supports Mozilla but not
Firefox by default.

“So in this article, I’ll cover building mplayerplug-in 2.70 RPM
package for Firefox on Fedora Core 1 as an example but you will
find the pre-compiled binary RPM packages for FC1 and FC2 at the
end of this page…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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