Video experience for Windows Media (Player 10) etc..

[taharka]

Howdy,

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

>Hi,
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>Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 15:55 -0300, Ted Gervais escreveu:
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>>Was wondering if there is anything that will take the place of the 
>>'Windows Media Player'  which wants to be used when trying to view videos 
>>while in www.cnn.com .
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>>I occasionally like to look at the various video clips that come with the news 
>>website and it asks me to 'GET PLAYER' when I click on these videos.
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>>Am I out of luck when trying to view these news videos when I am running 
>>Linux?  Or is there a way around this obstacle??
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>You could install mplayer + mplayer plugin for mozilla/firefox or the
>plugin along with any other player based on mplayer, like kmediaplayer.
>Personally, I prefer kaffeine+kaffeine plugin, because I like better to
>watch the clip on a separate, redimensionable window rather than
>embedded in the web page. Such sites often offer clips in real player
>format, which is available for Linux as well.
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>[]'s
>Marcelo
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There's also xine, which should work (haven't tried it myself on CNN's 
site). BTW, if you can get RealPlayer to work on CNN's site, please let 
me know. I was following the Space Shuttle landing, starting at 3:00 
A.M. EDT this morning & had to go to nasa.gov in order to get a 
RealPlayer friendly feed ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.