CNN wants Windows Media Player

[Paul Kaplan]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 5:52 pm, Paul Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:43 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:37 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > > Damien Hull wrote:
> > > > Can someone tell me why I can't watch the videos on cnn.com?
> > > >
> > > > When I click on the link a window opens up and tells me I don't have
> > > > Windows Media. Is there a fix for this?
> > >
> > > Yes. Switch to Fox News :-)
> > >
> > > http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html
> > >
> > > They use Flash.
> >
> > Fox isn't news.
>
> I was gonna say the same thing, but I decided to hold it in until they
> make and 'ubuntu-politics' list.
>
> Anyways, try installing mplayer and mozilla-mplayer from the
> repositories. Also, try removing totem-mozilla. It sucks. Mplayer has
> much better plug-in support.
>
I was going to ask the same question and then I realized that I have two 
kubuntu 6.06 boxes, one of which plays CNN video in konqueror while the other 
complains that Windows Media Player is needed.  Neither has Mplayer 
installed, but both have the win32codec packages installed.

Any ideas how to figure out which is the key package that gets me CNN?
Paul