fredex wrote: >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:39:37PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > > >>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, >> >> > >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. > > > 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 >> >> > >BTW, it's WMV, not WVM. > > 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? >> >>Thanks for the assistance on this and special thanks to Ben Steeves. >> >>Regards, >> >>Colleen >> >> >> > > >
