Re: LUG: Can you guys watch the movie trailers on yahoo? - Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:22:35 -0400

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

From : "Alex Marten" <alex.marten@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:22:35 -0400

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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