Play Windows Media files from within Mozilla?

[Robert Meyer]

--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> 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.

Try 'tar xvfj file.tar.bz2'.  I found that in the info page for 'tar'.  I
HATE 'info' pages.  Why can't Stallman use 'man' pages like everyone else has
been for over 30 years?

If that doesn't work, try 'tar xvf --use-compress-program bzip2 file.tar.bz2'

If that doesn't work, try  'bzip2 -dc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -'.  Note that
the '-' is important.

Cheers!

Bob
> 
> 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!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>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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> >>>      
> >>>
> 


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