Guest zippy028 Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 I have Mandrake 10.1 installed and functioning well with the exception of mplayer. I cannot get the mplayer plugin to work. I am mostly sure it is installed via rpm. THe plugin is listed and enabled in mozilla yet when I try to load and stream a .wmv video it tells me I need xmplayer2 plugin. I have urpmi'ed nearly anything and everything to do with codecs and mozilla plugins yet no dice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 (edited) You probably just need the right codecs. Here are some helpful messages and threads on getting mplayer video to work: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=198167 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=199316 Some people recommend getting the necessary codecs from the PLF site and others suggest getting them directly from the mplayer site (which is listed in the above links). I got mine from the mplayer site. The codecs will go in /usr/lib/win32. It can take a lot of tinkering to get everything working right (not just wmv's, but quicktime, realvideo, various audio formats, etc). Most any problem you run into though will already have been covered here, so a little bit of searching will definitely pay dividends. Edited August 12, 2005 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 for what it's worth, i've always had the best success using all PLF packages where MPlayer is concerned. i haven't run across a Windows media file that i can't play with it. if you go the PLF route, make sure you get all the codec packs. there are several of them. just use Mandrake Control Center->software->install & type codec in the search & get all of them that show up. you shouldn't have any problems once everything is installed. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Have you ever tried firefox instead of mozilla? I ask this because I have never been able to get a flash plugin to work with mozilla, yet had no trouble with firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 (edited) Greetings daniewicz. BTW, were you ever able to get streaming video to work at the usatoday site? I've tried, but no go. No problems at the other major news sites. Edited August 12, 2005 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 jboy: I did not have any success with streaming video at usatoday or cnn. I have given up (for now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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