Would like to play WMV streams

Johnathan Bailes johnathan.bailes at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 19:32:26 UTC 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:42:54 -0800, Jared Buck <JBuck814366460 at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> I have a bit of a problem at the moment.  Some of my favorite web sites
> have streaming video feeds that i would like to play, but of course M$
> doesn't make a version of WMP for Linux.  I know there are free
> alternatives to this, and have MPlayer and Xine(as well as Totem)
> installed on my machine.
> 
> My problem is, there does not seem to be any plugin for Firefox under
> Linux that is capable of showing and playing streaming WMV files.
> 
> Any help I could get here is appreciated.
> 
> Jared
> 

I love me some Fedora Faq:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#browsermovies

Ok but what about Quicktime and sound. 

I had a problem even after installing mplayer plugin with sound and
quicktime movies so I installed the win32 file into my /usr/lib/win32
dir.

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-20050115.zip

I think there are instructions in the doc but if not just find all the
files and copy them to your win32 dir.

You will get sound and all codec goodness after that.




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