Windows Media players

[Claude Jones]

Andrew Konosky wrote:

> Claude Jones wrote:
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>> Aaron Gaudio wrote:
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>>>> I was wondering if this is the best (if not only) Windows Media 
>>>> plugin that works with Mozilla?
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>>> Have you tried totem (or xine, which totem is based on)?
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>> I just looked into Totem. It states that it's a media player for the 
>> Gnome desktop. Will it also work under KDE?
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> Mplayer should work just fine from an rpm install, but I don't 
> remember if you have to install the codecs seperately or not. I don't 
> think thats necessary with rpms, but it is with a source 
> compile/install. Mplayer was my main media player, then I installed 
> Xine and was impressed with it, so I use it as default now. I would 
> recommend Xine for video and XMMS is a good music-jukebox type 
> program. I keep Mplayer because it has mencoder for encoding DVDs to 
> mpeg1/2 or mpeg4. Kplayer is a KDE media player based on mplayer, and 
> it is comparible to XMMS as far as a music jukebox, but all of the 
> above work for me under both gnome and KDE, so you can use them all if 
> you want.
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>
Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. Maybe you or someone will 
have an idea what I did wrong with the mplay install. If I click on a 
Windows Media file from the Mozilla browser window, an Mplayer window 
opens and a message appears that it's buffering along with a progress 
bar -- and that's it. The green progress bar moves left to right, gets 
to almost the end, and then I just get the endless hour glass. The file 
appears to be downloading, but it never streams, or plays after the 
download.