mplayer skin again, as per request

Asheville Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Mon May 12 21:56:33 EDT 2003


Repost as requested.

Cyber Source wrote:

>Yes, I played with it too, totally cool. I have a friend that was trying
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>>>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
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>now I
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>>>just tell it to stream via windows media player, while in mozilla and
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>it
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>>>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.
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>The
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>>>site fails to tell you (or they may not know) that the file to place
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>the
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>>>config in for the skin and such does not create itself. So, download
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>the
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>>>mini skin from the site, put the folder containing the skin in where
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>the
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>>>rest of the mplayer skins are (change permissions accordingly) and
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>then
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>>>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
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>that!)
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>>>and viola!
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