On Wednesday 20 December 2006 19:55, Reg Clemens wrote: > I have asked this question before, with no response, > > 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 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? > > -- > Reg.Clemens > reg@xxxxxxx I just tried the site with Firefox on Debian Etch. firefox wants the flash plugin, and the video stuff needs windows media player. You will need to install Mplayer, and the codecs for it, also Mplayerplugin, probably the flashplugin if you don't have that installed for other stuff on the site. Mplayerplugin comes with a bunch of plugins for windows media, quicktime, realmedia, etc. If you already have realplayer 10 GOLD installed, its probably best to rename Mplayerplugins rm plugin, so you don't get the wrong one when accessing realmedia sites. I can't get video from CNN caus I'm only on dialup, and FC2's Firefox is DL'd directly from the site (no RPM's as on FC5/6). As the Mplayerplugin links are not auto created in my Firefox, I don't have the realplayer problem. I only create links from Firefox to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for the particular plugins I want enabled. I get Mplayer from the greysector repo, but I think you can get it, and the mplayerplugin from livna. Nigel.
