Error message: "Totem could not play mms"

[Reg Clemens]

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:55:24 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
> 
> > When trying to play video clips from www.cnn.com, I get the
> > error message
> >
> >      Totem could not play mms
> >
> > are there codecs somewhere to upgrade Totem?
> > What about Mplayer?
> 
> I have no problem viewing those clips with mplayer.
> 
> > I have no idea how to try to use Mplayer rather than Totem
> > in Firefox,- the option to change doesnt seem to be in 
> > preferences anywhere... Is it possible to change and would
> > it help?
> 
> I simply removed totem.
> 

Well, I obviously have removed too much, since I now get
a popup that says 

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        PLUGIN WARNING
NO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER DETECTED

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Mumph.

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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com