Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer
C.Beamer
cbeamer at interlynx.net
Sat Jul 9 00:53:24 UTC 2005
fredex wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:39:37PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote:
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>>I did all this and it solved the problem of playing files from withing
>>mplayer. However, I still have an issue with playing stuff in Firefox.
>>However, I'm pretty sure that I know what the issue is. The stuff that
>>I'm trying to play (videos from cnn.com) are in wvm format and if I look
>>at the available filetypes that are supported by plugins in Firefox,
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>just butting in here....
>I can't play CNN videos in firefox either, I wonder if your symptoms
>are the same as mine? I get a popup from CNN telling me that I need to
>download and install windows media player, with no way to bypass it and
>just stream me the file anyway. I have Xine on my box and it does
>play windows media files, even when invoked as a firefox plugin from
>other sites.
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No, my symptoms are not quite the same. I get sound and in the window
where the video is supposed to play, it shows "mplayerplug-in" and it
shows the text that says the file is streaming, but no video. When it
displayed the text that indicates the file is streaming, that's where I
got the info that the format was "wmv" ;-)
>>there is no wvm. Is this perhaps a problem with the mplayerplug-in file
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>BTW, it's WMV, not WVM.
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Yeah, well, I'm partially typing dyslexic :-) I sometimes get my 3 and
my 8 fingers mixed up too! :-)
Take care,
Colleen
>>that was installed with yum from the "livna" repository?
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>>Thanks for the assistance on this and special thanks to Ben Steeves.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Colleen
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