Play Windows Media files from within Mozilla?

[shipdadip]

Yeah I think you're right, I was confused.



On 11 May 2003, Cyber Source wrote:

> I don't believe that file is available in rpm format
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 23:42, shipdadip wrote:
> > I think the command to extract that file is bunzip or something.  Screw 
> > that though, get the RPM file.  RPM stands for Redhat Package Manager, but 
> > Mandrake uses RPM files too.  RPM files are preconigured/pre-compiled 
> > files and 1 command installs them.  So go to the site and get the file 
> > ending in RPM.
> > 
>> 
> > On Sat, 10 May 2003, Asheville Joe wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.