Setting MPlayer to handle WMV files in Firefox

[Annoym]

Thanks for the help.  It seems that both xine player and mplayer can
play videos from wwe.com, but neither can play them at full screen.
Funny, as I can't seem to get dailymotion.com in full screen either.

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:26 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Daniel George Pevny wrote:
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> > Does anyone here know how to set the firefox MPlayer plugin for wmv
> > files? In the file types menu, I'm only given the "Windows Media Player
> > Plugin" option, which hasn't benefited me for wwe.com nor cnbc.com.
> > Thanks in advanced!
> Hi Daniel,
> You need to type in "about:plugins" (without the quotes) in the navigation
> bar of FF. If you have correctly installed the Windows Media Player Plugin
> you should see it listed along with the supported filetypes including .wmv
> The plugin uses the file mplayerplug-in-wmp.so which can be placed in your
> ~/.mozilla/plugins folder if you are the only user on your machine. It can
> be placed in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins for system-wide use. You can find the
> plugin here
> http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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