Firefox - How to play wmv files?

[Rick Bilonick]

> I was able to install the mplayerplug-in and I installed a bunch of
> codecs on my Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook running FC4. I can now
> view .wmv on cnn.com, audio files on npr.org without any problems (also
> from a terminal shell) thanks to the help on this list. 
> 
> I did the same installs on my AMD 64-bit Athlon system running FC5 but
> only the audio plays on the video clips on cnn.com. Is it possible to
> view .wmv videos on a 64-bit system?
> 
> Rick B.
> 

I installed mplayerplug-in and codecs on an almost identical second
64-bit Athlon computer (same motherboard, memory, FC5, applications,
etc.) and the wmv video works fine.

Rick B.