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config stream to mplayer

Post by grego »

Hello,
I wanted to configure FlasGot to start mplayer to see video, because the FlashPlayer is CPU-greedy on my not-so-outdated notebook.
So I tried to add a new download manager in the preferences dialog.
On the "Give name to dl manager" popup, I enter the name of the new dl mgr (eg. "mplayer"), but just clicking the OK button, Firefox crashes.

Can you help?

System:
Velocity Vector Linux 64bit (Slackware derived)
Firefox 52.0
FlashGot 1.5.6.14

Thank you
Grego
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Re: config stream to mplayer

Post by cipricus »

I am using mpv instead of mplayer and it works fine. Also, SMPlayer and Gnome MPV work too.

Maybe try a new Firefox user profile.

Also, you could try Palemoon instead of Firefox.
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Re: config stream to mplayer

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And just how do you have mpv, SM, players set up to work with FlashGot?
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grego

Re: config stream to mplayer

Post by grego »

I found out, it was a more general (well known) problem.
I had to set Firefox pref ui.allow_platform_file_picker to false (bug in GTK+ 3.x framework file picker).
With this, the internal FF file picker is used, and it works.
I posted this for reference.
Tnk

PS: By the way, to have *player play a video extracted by Flashgot, you just define a new custom download manager, and set the *player exec as dl-mgr exec .
It doesn't work always ... :-(

Grego
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