Firefox - How to play wmv files?

[Rick Bilonick]

> > 
> Hi Rick
> I've just tried www.cnn.com 
> It does come up with a message but I just said Continue and clip played
> OK
> 
> It uses  mplayerplug-in
> 
> rpm -qa|grep -i mplayer
> mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.lvn5.i386
> mplayer-skins-1.4-1.lvn5.noarch
> mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.lvn5.noarch
> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
> 
> 
> Fedora/1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.4
> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> 
> John
> 

John,

Thanks. It works. Is there any way to get mplayer to open outside of
Firefox? I don't like it when the app opens inside the browser - it's
just not as functional.

Rick B.