Re: LUG: Can you guys watch the movie trailers on yahoo? - Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:16:21 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Can you guys watch the movie trailers on yahoo?

From : xhu@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:16:21 -0400

Thanks very much

But I didn't install mplayerplug-in successfully.
It said "can't find -lXt", I think some static library is missing on my
system.

Xiaoming

> I was curious so I went to yahoo and tried to watch the trailer for
> the new Borat movie and had no problems watching the clip. I am
> running Ubuntu 6.06 + firefox + mplayerplug-in + windows codecs. I
> have found in my experience that the mplayerplug-in
> (http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/) is a great addition to any
> linux system as it takes care of most media embedded in web sites. It
> may be installed on Ubuntu systems with "apt-get install
> mozilla-mplayer". I can't remember where I got the deb package with
> the windows codecs but they're not to hard to find.
>
> On 6/24/06, Matthew West <mattwestm@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
>> I have never been able to play movies from Yahoo on Linux. The reason
>> for this is because the trailers use the Windows Media Player plugin.
>> I have even had some problems with playing movies on Windows with
>> Firefox. I would assume that this works best with Windows and Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Matthew West
>>
>> On 6/23/06, xhu@ncsu.[redacted] <xhu@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>> > I can't watch those eventough I already installed realplayer 10
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Xiaoming
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
> --
> Alex Marten
> alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]
>

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