Hi, gang,

I am getting frustrated not being able to watch news videos from
www.cnn.com, www.foxnews.com and www.msnbc.msn.com. This is because Bill
Gates refuses to release a copy of Window$ Media Player to the public for
Linux, though they do have one for OEM's to bundle with linux (go figure).

Anyway, I can still watch many Windows Media Player videos with either
Totem Media Player or Kaffeine Player. However, I do not know how to (or
even if I can) get Firefox 1.5 to redirect them from those sites to either
of the above mentioned Linux programs. Firefox automatically does it from
sites like www.shoutcast.com, but not from those news sites.

Please help. Thank you.


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Andy Rugg
The Cheerful Pickle
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Andy Rugg wrote:

> Hi, gang,
>
> I am getting frustrated not being able to watch news videos from
> www.cnn.com, www.foxnews.com and www.msnbc.msn.com. This is because Bill
> Gates refuses to release a copy of Window$ Media Player to the public for
> Linux, though they do have one for OEM's to bundle with linux (go figure).
>
> Anyway, I can still watch many Windows Media Player videos with either
> Totem Media Player or Kaffeine Player. However, I do not know how to (or
> even if I can) get Firefox 1.5 to redirect them from those sites to either
> of the above mentioned Linux programs. Firefox automatically does it from
> sites like www.shoutcast.com, but not from those news sites.
>
> Please help. Thank you.
>
>
I really can't help you there, but maybe you can find an alternative
program here: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html, or maybe try
videolan: http://www.videolan.org/, or search around sourceforge.net
for something compatible, http://sourceforge.net/search/

Andy Rugg wrote:
> Hi, gang,
>
> I am getting frustrated not being able to watch news videos from
> www.cnn.com, www.foxnews.com and www.msnbc.msn.com. This is because Bill
> Gates refuses to release a copy of Window$ Media Player to the public for
> Linux, though they do have one for OEM's to bundle with linux (go figure).
>
> Anyway, I can still watch many Windows Media Player videos with either
> Totem Media Player or Kaffeine Player. However, I do not know how to (or
> even if I can) get Firefox 1.5 to redirect them from those sites to either
> of the above mentioned Linux programs. Firefox automatically does it from
> sites like www.shoutcast.com, but not from those news sites.
>
> Please help. Thank you.
>
>
Mplayer works fine for cnn and foxnews. Msnbc is another story. Give it
a whirl.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

--
norm

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:30:01 -0500, norm wrote:

> Mplayer works fine for cnn and foxnews. Msnbc is another story. Give it
> a whirl.

OK. So, I downloaded the darn thing, now what. CNN.com still insists on
Windows Media Player 9.0 and foxnews.com simply blissfully ignores
mplayer. How do I now get my Firefox 1.5 to use mplayer instead of
insisting on WMP? BTW, after downloading it, I used my terminal to verify
that it was in the path (/usr/bin/) and restarted my computer to make sure
that everything would be properly initialized. So, now what do I do --
shoot the )&*%@+! thing to get it to work?

--
Andy Rugg
The Cheerful Pickle
/* c h e e r f u l p i c k l e @ y a h o o . c o m */

Andy Rugg said the following on 22/02/06 17:25:

> Hi, gang,
>
> I am getting frustrated not being able to watch news videos from
> www.cnn.com, www.foxnews.com and www.msnbc.msn.com. This is because Bill
> Gates refuses to release a copy of Window$ Media Player to the public for
> Linux, though they do have one for OEM's to bundle with linux (go figure).
>
> Anyway, I can still watch many Windows Media Player videos with either
> Totem Media Player or Kaffeine Player. However, I do not know how to (or
> even if I can) get Firefox 1.5 to redirect them from those sites to either
> of the above mentioned Linux programs. Firefox automatically does it from
> sites like www.shoutcast.com, but not from those news sites.
>
> Please help. Thank you.
>
>

MPlayer and MPlayer plugin work. It will fool all but the most obnoxious
pro-WMP sites. If you're running SuSE, everything you need, including
missing codecs can be found at:

http://packman.links2linux.org/

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everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to
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