CNN wants Windows Media Player

[NoOp]

Paul Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 19:21 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:15 -0400, Paul Williams wrote:
>> > If you are using 'mplayer' and 'mozilla-mplayer', like you ought to, and
>> > you have the 'w32codecs' package installed, try to go to a video other
>> > than at CNN. When the movie starts to load, right click on it, and
>> > select "Configure"
>> > 
>> > Make sure that "Windows Media Support" is checked.
>> 
>> I've found that mplayer and the mozilla-mplayer plugin work most of the 
>> time. But it doesn't seen to work with CNN. I get audio but no video.
>> 
> Hm... I get both audio and video. Try going to the mplayer configuration
> window again, and changing the out video output settings. Mine is set on
> "xv" but try them all.

Ditto here. However you can configure without trying to go to a video by
Applications|Sound & Video|Mplayer Movie Player
 - when mplayer comes up, right click on the vido screen portion then
click on Preferences.

Mine are set at:
Audio: alsa
Video: xv + Enable double buffering