no sound when playing WMV files

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 02:13 +0100, DarkStarDeity wrote:
> Another noob here. The steps here solved my problems playing a wmv file
> from my file system, but how do I get it working for streaming videos
> directly in the browser? Is there a similar fix for mplayer? 
> 
> 
> 
> 'This page' (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats) mentions
> "importing" totem into my browser, but doesn't explain how to do it. I
> tried going into Preferences->Downloads->View & Edit Actions and change
> the action for wmv files from "play with mplayer plugin" to "Open with
> this application" and chosing totem-xine, but it still opens them with
> the mplayer plugin. What am I missing here?
> 
> 
> -- 
> DarkStarDeity
> 
You need the Totem plug-in for Firefox/Mozilla:
	sudo apt-get install totem-xine-firefox-plugin

(Also, you _might_ need to remove any other plug-in that could conflict
with ‘totem-xine-firefox-plugin’.)
Ziyad.