> > just yesterday, i tried to make a convert of a friend by installing > fedora 9 on the spare disk on her system, and she quickly learned > about the notion of non-free software when she tried to view online > mpg and wmv files, at which point i explained the notion of the GPL, > etc, etc. > > we got to the concept of mozilla plugins for firefox, whereupon we > took a quick look under "about:plugins" and she pointed out that, as > far as the output of that page was concerned, there was this thing > called mozplugger which could handle various formats including > video/mpeg, and there was an "installed" WMP plugin that could handle > wmv files, and they were both enabled, and she said, "just from what i > can see here, this is supposed to be the list of installed plugins, > and it sure looks like those plugins are there and enabled, so why > don't they work so i can play mpeg and wmv files?" > > to which, because i don't have as much familiarity with multimedia > under fedora as i'd like, i had to admit that i didn't know. i hadn't > installed any non-free media packages yet, so i really don't know what > it means to look at "about:plugins" and be told that there are plugins > that handle those formats, and they're enabled. thoughts? i really > do need to read up on all the multimedia stuff. I've got VLC running on my F9 system. The three VLC components, in my case, are vlc-core, mozilla-vlc and vlc (all installed from the Livna repo). In addition, I believe I had to do a little research for the appropriate codecs, but once installed, I'm able to play just about everything via Firefox. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
