Hi magicus; On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:07 -0400, magicus wrote: > William Case wrote: [snip] > I just looked at a *.wmv file with Xine, MPlayer, and VLC. It has been > quite a while since I set these up and I am certain that I probably had > to add an installation of codecs to the mix, probably from the Mplayer > site. In any case all 3 seem to play it. MPlayer DOES however complain > with a popup dialog box complaining about missing a DLL for DVD > playback, it still played the file. > Got the exactly the same response from Mplayer. > This was with a file on my drive, not one embedded in an email. Evolution gives me the choice of my normal movie player or Mplayer. Mplayer works -- but does give me the popup dialogue. Mplayer works as standalone, playing the downloaded email attachment clip from the playlist; with popup. Firefox, on the other hand, insists on using totem and then can't play anything. In Firefox, under Preferences => Content => File Type: Manage => Extensions only two possible extensions are listed; FLV & SWF. I assume Firefox is not finding all the codecs. I have tried setting up as advised in Firefox plug-in site eg. "Copy mplayerplug-in.so to your Mozilla plugins folder, and mplayerplug-in.xpt to your Mozilla components folder". Can't find any such folders. There is a ~/.mozilla/plugins folder. mplayerplug-ins has been installed but I can't find a mplayerplug-in.xpt or a mplayerplug-in.so. It is all very confusing. In FC6 I got it working by main force i.e trial and error, removing Totem and adding lots of various steamers, codecs and programs until the damned thing worked. This time I was trying to be a bit more orderly. I wish I could find a site that patiently told me what I was doing and why. -- Regards Bill
