codecs

[jim tate]

Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> HI to all and particular thanks to Amadeus W. M. for your patience and
> direction on the codec files and other bits and pieces..
>
> Well - I found success to my problem which simply was the installation
> of a file called "mediaplayerconnectivity" found in
> Mozilla>tools>extensions.  I search for and installed that file and
> BINGO!!  The video stuff now works perfectly through Mozzila.  And
> everything still works fine in Konqueror as well.
>
> So that is it.  I will send another note to the 'list' as well,
> detailing this find..
>
> Thanks again..
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 23:14 +0000, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:38:36 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I am still working on getting fc6 to play videos on www.cnn.com.
>>> And I am still not successful using Mozilla. Ok with konqueror though.
>>>
>>> My thoughts right now center on codec.  I am wondering if I have the
>>> right files for this and if I have them placed in the correct
>>> directories.
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me where I should have gotten them from and where do I
>>> place them?
>>>
>>>       
>> It's documented on the mplayer home page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu . It
>> doesn't hurt if you read it. Clean-up the old codecs, and download the
>> essential codecs from 
>>
>> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
>>
>> (under the Binary Codec Packages section). Unpack them in
>> /usr/local/lib/win32. 
>>
>>
>> However, if you can play the clips at the prompt, you have the codecs.
>> Probably something else is getting in the way of mplayer in firefox. 
>> Someone else already suggested that you might have a totem plug-in.
>>
>>     
I'm a little lost on finding the

"mediaplayerconnectivity"


I went to the;

Mozilla>tools>extensions  site and couldn't find a

"mediaplayerconnectivity

Could you please be a lot more precist.

Thanks
Jim