On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:49 -0400, William Case wrote: > 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. ---- you shouldn't have to find anything why not list output of... rpm -qa|grep mplayer Craig
