Play Windows Media files from within Mozilla?

[Asheville Joe]

Please bear with a newbie.  Which of these would work best for Mozilla 
on Mandrake 9.1?

How do you unpack a file that ends in .tar.bz2?  tar -xvzf <file> didn't 
work.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

>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!
>>
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>>
>>
>>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Samuel Morales Jr. wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>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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