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SarahsDad
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: Mplayer can't play wmv |
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I have mplayer plugin installed and the win32 codecs but mplayer has trouble playing wmv content sometimes crashing when it tries. can anything be done to fix this? Thanks.
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SarahsDad
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I think I came up with a fix. I installed media connectvity add on and configured xine to play window media palyer and it works great so far. Xine has no problem playing wmv content. Oh, this was about viewing WMV content on websites from Firefox, so I guess I should have posted in Networking and Internet. Sorry
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rhighfil82
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: Just to add |
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Cool, glad ya got it working! Anyways, if it should give ya trouble in the future, Kaffeine also has a Firefox Plugin. 
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jerrybasham
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| SarahsDad wrote: | | I think I came up with a fix. I installed media connectvity add on and configured xine to play window media palyer and it works great so far. Xine has no problem playing wmv content. Oh, this was about viewing WMV content on websites from Firefox, so I guess I should have posted in Networking and Internet. Sorry |
That fixed a lot of headaches for me.. the only difference
for me is configuring Connectivity to allow Real Player
for www.cbsnews.com and David Letterman's "comedy
clips" site.
Thanks a lot for posting about the Media Connectivity
addon.
-- Jerry
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sqlpython
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I used CrossOver and installed IExplorer, WinMediaPlayer and Quicktime..In this way CrossOver Plugins are available to FireFox and it work well with MPlayer as an embedded Player.
But..
Having said that whenever I can I use RealPlayer as your do on CBS as it is a better choice then WinDoze anythind for a LINUX desktop.
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jerrybasham
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Yeah, I don't want anything to do with Windows when I know that Linux is strong enough on its own.
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mobrien118
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: Two quickies: |
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If you don't mind:
1. How did you install mplayer? I saw the plugin in the experimental repository, but it says "broken packages" when I try to install it (probably because mplayer isn't available).
2. Is there a way to get xine to work with WMV files? It says it is missing some kind of file.
Thanks a bunch,
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b_ratliff
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: may I ask |
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HOw you configured wine to play windows media player?
thanks, Robert
| jerrybasham wrote: | | SarahsDad wrote: | | I think I came up with a fix. I installed media connectvity add on and configured xine to play window media palyer and it works great so far. Xine has no problem playing wmv content. Oh, this was about viewing WMV content on websites from Firefox, so I guess I should have posted in Networking and Internet. Sorry |
That fixed a lot of headaches for me.. the only difference
for me is configuring Connectivity to allow Real Player
for www.cbsnews.com and David Letterman's "comedy
clips" site.
Thanks a lot for posting about the Media Connectivity
addon.
-- Jerry |
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Dave67
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wonder i f I download the windows media player 9 it would install on crossover? think I am going to try this and post what ever happens
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papabearak
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| Dave67 wrote: | wonder i f I download the windows media player 9 it would install on crossover? think I am going to try this and post what ever happens
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Dave67, I am pretty sure that Media Player 9 will not install under crossover directly, but I recall seeing a procedure here on the forums that tells how to update the Media Player 7 install you get by default from Crossover, to upgrade it to full Media Player 9 capabilities. I have not tried it, because Xine plays all the media I need to play, now that I have installed all the codecs, but if you are interested, search the forums, particularly the "Other Software" forum for references to Media Player 9. That should turn up the thread I saw. I will do a search and see if I can find it. If I can, I'll follow up by posting the link. Ben
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Dave67
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the problem I am having is when a site has a space to play a video i get download plugin in the center I even get this same message on windows but now I got the VLC ( videolan player) on windows this works great for most videos. it is even better than powerdvd5 which after a while would not would not even work. I put in a dvd and it just plays wow even faster than other free dvd players I have tried. it also plays other files that i could not before
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jerrybasham
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Is this considered an upgrade? Should we delete/uninstall the
version we have now and then install that one?
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Davepet
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| Quote: | | Is this considered an upgrade? |
I'm running v4 Pro & it was not set up by default to play video in Firefox. After installing Kevin's package most streams play fine (well as well as thy ever do on a 28.8 connection).
You'll likely get better info posting in the thread I linked to.
Dave
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