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Archive for March, 2010

Mar 15

NinjaVideo.net + Linux

DivX streaming from Ninjavideo.net on windows was simple enough with the installation of the DivX web player. On linux, the old mplayerplug-inused to work fine when used with a greasemonkey script. Recently however this was depreciated in debian testing, and replaced with gecko-mediaplayer.

With the removal of the old mplayerplug-in for firefox, things stopped working! The videos would not load with gecko-mediaplayer (which uses gnome-mplayer rather than mplayer), and so after some investigation I was able to find a bug report where someone was having similar issues.

It appears to have been fixed in the latest release, but it is not yet in the debian repos. So in order to start using ninjavideo again, you need to compile gnome-mplayer an gecko-mediaplayer. I have keep all my source files in $HOME/src dir simply because it’s easier to manage. You can stick to your habits, or follow the instructions below.


sudo aptitude build-dep gnome-mplayer
sudo aptitude build-dep gecko-mediaplayer
cd ~/src
wget http://gnome-mplayer.googlecode.com/files/gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2.tar.gz
wget http://gecko-mediaplayer.googlecode.com/files/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2....
tar xzfv gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2.tar.gz
tar xzfv gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2.tar.gz

First let’s compile gnome-mplayer:

cd gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

Then, gecko-mediaplayer:

cd gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

And that’s it, you’re done! Restart firefox, remove/disable any conflicting plugins (e.g. totem, vlc) and ninjavideo should be running as it was!

Mar 12

CentOS5 – yum – cElementTree – Python

So you updated using yum, and lo and behold yum is no longer working. An attempt to use yum gives you the following:


$ yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named cElementTree

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.4.3 (#1, Jul 27 2009, 17:57:39)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

I had this error on a CentOS5 VPS. Now, the fix for this is simple enough. It involves removal of some packages, then re-installing those packages we removed.


rpm -e yum yum-fastestmirror python-urlgrabber python-sqlite python-elementtree
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-20.el5.cento...
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.1...
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0...
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2...
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2....
rpm -i yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm

Of course bear in mind the architecture and versions (depends when you are reading this post!) of the files.

This should get you up and running again.