Firefox - How to play wmv files?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Oct 14 10:14:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 02:08 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: 
> I'm running FC4 i386. I've installed xine, mplayer, kaffeine, and totem
> and the win32 codecs. I can get these programs to play wmv files. How do
> I get Firefox to play them? For example, if I go to www.cnn.com and
> click on video, it complains about a plugin. I go to edit/preferences in
> Firefox but it won't let me tell it to use xine or whatever. Any ideas
> on how to get this to work?

You could try the mplayer-plugin package from Livna.  I've never tried
it, but it sounds the likely solution.

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