Windows Media players

[Douglas Furlong]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:43 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> Andrew Konosky wrote:
> 
> > Claude Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I was wondering if this is the best (if not only) Windows Media 
> >>>> plugin that works with Mozilla?
> >>>>   
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Have you tried totem (or xine, which totem is based on)?
> >>>
> >>>  
> >>>
> >> I just looked into Totem. It states that it's a media player for the 
> >> Gnome desktop. Will it also work under KDE?
> >>
> >>
> > Mplayer should work just fine from an rpm install, but I don't 
> > remember if you have to install the codecs seperately or not. I don't 
> > think thats necessary with rpms, but it is with a source 
> > compile/install. Mplayer was my main media player, then I installed 
> > Xine and was impressed with it, so I use it as default now. I would 
> > recommend Xine for video and XMMS is a good music-jukebox type 
> > program. I keep Mplayer because it has mencoder for encoding DVDs to 
> > mpeg1/2 or mpeg4. Kplayer is a KDE media player based on mplayer, and 
> > it is comparible to XMMS as far as a music jukebox, but all of the 
> > above work for me under both gnome and KDE, so you can use them all if 
> > you want.
> >
> >
> Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. Maybe you or someone will 
> have an idea what I did wrong with the mplay install. If I click on a 
> Windows Media file from the Mozilla browser window, an Mplayer window 
> opens and a message appears that it's buffering along with a progress 
> bar -- and that's it. The green progress bar moves left to right, gets 
> to almost the end, and then I just get the endless hour glass. The file 
> appears to be downloading, but it never streams, or plays after the 
> download.
There are a couple of things that can cause this (it's mentioned in
their FAQ, you did read that didn't you? http://mplayerplug-
in.sourceforge.net/faq.php)
Have you installed the additional libraries for playing wmv media? There
also seems to be a problem with playing some wmv files in xine/totem and
possibly mplayer, the thing they appear to have in common is that they
are encoded using variable bit rate.

Hope this provides some help.


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Douglas Furlong
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