Error message: "Totem could not play mms"

[Res]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Reg Clemens wrote:

>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:55:24 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote:
>>
>>> When trying to play video clips from www.cnn.com, I get the
>>> error message
>>>
>>>      Totem could not play mms
>>>
>>> are there codecs somewhere to upgrade Totem?
>>> What about Mplayer?
>>
>> I have no problem viewing those clips with mplayer.
>>
>>> I have no idea how to try to use Mplayer rather than Totem
>>> in Firefox,- the option to change doesnt seem to be in
>>> preferences anywhere... Is it possible to change and would
>>> it help?
>>
>> I simply removed totem.
>>
>
> Well, I obviously have removed too much, since I now get
> a popup that says

google for mplayerplug-in

one thing tho, i removed the realplay plugins this pkg installs so firefox 
can natively use the realplayer nphelix.* plugins, without it, sites like 
the BBC wont work when you click on listen/watch

>
> ---
>
>        PLUGIN WARNING
> NO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER DETECTED
>
> ---
>
> Mumph.
>
>

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Res

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