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phgroove

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Posted: May 03 2006,14:29

How do I set up firefox to show embedded wmv?
I can't find a plugin for firefox and linux.

I tried installing mplayer and mplayer plugin, but nothing coms up.
Thanks for any help

kerry

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Posted: May 03 2006,21:46

You've got to copy the mplayer plugins from /opt/firefox/plugins to /usr/local/firefox/plugins. I don't know why it installs there but it does.

mikshaw

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Posted: May 04 2006,01:32

I believe the idea of having the plugins in /opt was to make it so you could add firefox plugins to a dsl system without running mkwriteable. However, until i just now looked into it, I assumed /usr/local/firefox/plugins was a symlink to /opt/firefox_plugins. So i dunno why it was done that way either. It seems like the only plugin you can add to firefox without making /usr writeable is java.

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phgroove

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Posted: May 04 2006,09:06

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You've got to copy the mplayer plugins from /opt/firefox/plugins to /usr/local/firefox/plugins. I don't know why it installs there but it does.

Done...restarted firefox...nothing, I still get the message "click here to download plugin" :-(

kerry

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Posted: May 04 2006,09:20

What does your about:plugins say in firefox? You sure it's not flash you need? Go to the flash site and download flash then copy flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so to /usr/local/firefox/plugins. Also did you install the codecpak.dsl so you have the win .dll's.

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