mplayer skin again, as per request

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon May 12 13:07:45 EDT 2003


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!
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Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>




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