Play Windows Media files from within Mozilla?

[Cyber Source]

Yes, I played with it too, totally cool. I have a friend that was trying
to watch yahoo movie trailers and just couldn't get it going via
realplayer on RH9. I downloaded the rpm for the mplayer plugin and now I
just tell it to stream via windows media player, while in mozilla and it
plays perfectly, totally cool! One thing to note for anyone else that
tries this, from that site you can download the mini skin which will
show a progress bar in the window and allow stop, pause and start. The
site fails to tell you (or they may not know) that the file to place the
config in for the skin and such does not create itself. So, download the
mini skin from the site, put the folder containing the skin in where the
rest of the mplayer skins are (change permissions accordingly) and then
create the file mplayerplug-in.conf in your ~/.mozilla directory and
inside that file put the line "use-gui=mini" without the quotes. Then
fire up mozilla, go to any streaming site that uses windows media
player, when asked, tell it to use windows media player (I love that!)
and viola!
On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 10:54, shipdadip wrote:
> Works good thanx!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Samuel Morales Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Three options:
> > 
> > 1. mplayer-plugin
> > <http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/>
> > 
> > 2. wftv mplayer-plugin
> > <http://www.webfreetv.com/linux/>
> > 
> > 3. Crossover Plugin (NOT FREE)
> > <http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/>  
> > 
> > 
> > --- shipdadip <shipdadip at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > > Hi all, 
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering if there is something that cam
> > > play Windows Media
> > > files from within Mozilla? Like when you go to a
> > > website and they have a
> > > streaming .avi or something how do I play this? 
> > > I've managed to get the
> > > Real plug in working but it doesn't play Window's
> > > Media Player files. 
> > > Can anyone help?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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