Firefox - How to play wmv files?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 07:42:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 03:18 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > I was able to install the mplayerplug-in and I installed a bunch of
> > codecs on my Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook running FC4. I can now
> > view .wmv on cnn.com, audio files on npr.org without any problems (also
> > from a terminal shell) thanks to the help on this list. 
> > 
> > I did the same installs on my AMD 64-bit Athlon system running FC5 but
> > only the audio plays on the video clips on cnn.com. Is it possible to
> > view .wmv videos on a 64-bit system?
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> 
> I installed mplayerplug-in and codecs on an almost identical second
> 64-bit Athlon computer (same motherboard, memory, FC5, applications,
> etc.) and the wmv video works fine.

Sure it does... for now. <evil cackles> Ric

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