Firefox - How to play wmv files?

roland roland at cat.be
Sun Oct 15 15:41:23 UTC 2006


On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:55:29 +0200, Claude Jones  
<claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:

> On Sat October 14 2006 1:23 pm, roland wrote:
>> I downloaded opera from the site of opera, installed it and
>> played .wmv files.
>> I only can play this from the linux console not within VNC.
>> Strange thing is that opera opens the .wmv file if you click on
>> it on the web page but not if you open the file in
>> $HOME/.opera/temporary_download If you click right on it and
>> choose mplayer it will open it.
>>
>
> OK, Roland. I've just tried installing it and playing a selection
> of video files, but no success. I tried video from cnn.com
> larouchepac.com news.bbc.co.uk
>
> The CNN page just pops the "No Windows Media Player Detected"
> window, which takes you to M$ if you click on the button
> The larouchepac.com videos pop an Opera dialog which asks what I
> want to do - selecting "Open" opens mplayer, but, then nothing
> happens
> The BBC video popped the which media do you want to use dialog; I
> tried realmedia first, but that produced an error message when it
> tried to play the actual file; then, I changed it Windows Media,
> and it didn't get past fully opening the play window before it
> just stalled with the window half open
>
>> Now, why does he or she does it on my installation and not in
>> yours? I installed serveral plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla which
>> are apparently used by opera.
>> In Tools->Advanced->Plugins I find the following plugins:
>>
>> Shockwave Flashapplication/futuresplash	spl
>> application/x-shockwave-flash	swf
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>>
>> NS4PluginProxyapplication/x-opera-nsplugin	-
>> /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libnpp.so
>>
>> Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In
>> Compatibleaudio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin	rpm
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
>>
> My plugins look the same except I don't have Adobe Reader:
>
> Shockwave Flashapplication/futuresplash	spl
> application/x-shockwave-flash	swf
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>
> NS4PluginProxyapplication/x-opera-nsplugin	-
> /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libnpp.so
>
> Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In
> Compatibleaudio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin	rpm
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
>
>> Could you check this and if it still does not work I can look
>> further or back in my history how I installed the plugins
>>
>> Roland

I looked up and found this:
You have to do : yum install gcc-c++
and do what is in the pdf, I included in this mail.
I hope I can attach a pdf file.
You also can have a look at
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html

Just pray it little bit like I did.
Good luck
If it doesn't work just get back to me.

Roland


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