{fixed} Re: wmv files

[Lokrin]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 00:15 -0700, Lokrin wrote:
> 
>>Dotan Cohen wrote: 
>>
>>>On 8/2/05, Lokrin <redhat at lokrin.net> wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> I am using FC2 and Firefox 1.0.3  
>>>> 
>>>> I can download a wmv file and it opens in Totem fine, but I have to right
>>>>click and download the file.  Otherwise I get a message for CLICK HERE TO
>>>>DOWNLOAD PLUGIN and it is unable to find a suitable plugin.
>>>> 
>>>> Can I convince firefox to use totem as a plugin for these files?
>>>> 
>>>> Following is the webpage code (reformatted for visibility, was one straight
>>>>line):
>>>> 
>>>> <
>>>> embed 
>>>> type="application/x-mplayer2" 
>>>>pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
>>>> name="mediaplayer1" 
>>>> EnableContextMenu="false" 
>>>> autostart="true" 
>>>> width="320" 
>>>> height="265" 
>>>> transparentstart="1" 
>>>> loop="0" 
>>>> controller="true" 
>>>> src="http://subdomain.domain.tld/videos/file.wmv" <=
>>>>changed by Lokrin
>>>>    
>>>></embed> 
>>>> 
>>>>    
>>>
>>>You can use mplayer:
>>>http://www.fedorafaq.org/#browsermovies
>>>
>>>If you are bent on totem, them search yum, there is probably something similar.
>>>
>>>Dotan Cohen
>>>http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/389/osbourne_ozzy.php
>>>Osbourne, Ozzy Song Lyrics
>>>
>>>  
>>
>>ok, I was able to re-associate links to open in mplayer.  However the
>>webpages still gave me a missing plugin error.  So I did an apt-get
>>mplayerplug-in and then searched for the .so file and copied it over
>>to the default firefox plugin folder.  Now it works!  Thanks.
>>
> 
> That works, however the common practice is to make a link in the firefox
> plugin directory to the .so file.  That way when the plugin gets updated
> firefox will use the new file and not just the old one it already has.
> 
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Now that makes sense...  I still can't figure out why the plugin 
directory has only the default plugin and the other plugins (about 5) 
are located all over the place.  i would think that they (or links) 
would all be in one place.