Video experience for Windows Media (Player 10) etc..

[Ping-Wu Zhang]

On 8/9/05, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:29 -0700, oldman wrote:
> >     They do look for media player, but offer the option to continue
> > to
> > the videos (which work great with MPlayer BTW)
> 
> Not on http://www.cnn.com which merely states "No Windows Media Player
> Detected" and only option is to "GET THE PLAYER".
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen

Follow the instructions listed in the following very helpful forum:

http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc4-tips.php#mplayer

Everything will work fine.

(If you follow the instructions there but CNN video does not close
properly, then you need to run the newest mplayerplug-in:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_8#mplayerplug-in_3.05_Released
)