MPlayer and asf/wmv, trouble playing....

[emh]

In both Mozilla and Opera, whenever I click on a link that is for an asf or wmv movie stream, all I get is a bunch of ASCII gibberish.  What I want to be able to do is use MPlayer to play each of these through my web browser.  Right now, if I save the file to disk and open it with MPlayer there, it plays just fine, however, if I click to open in the browser, instead of an "open with" dialogue or anything, it just opens a page of gibberish ASCII characters.  I do have the mplayer browser plug-in for Mozilla (it works in Opera, too) from http://plugins.mozdev.org (not sure that's the exact web site name).  And the plug in works just fine for mpeg videos and Windows Media audio files (and I have Quicktime and Real Player for those formats).  Is there anything else I need to do?

[Doctor V]

boy, you need the PLUGGER!!!

here's the link to the dl site:

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html


then you need to configure it and all.

V

[mobrien_12]

I used to love plugger but removed it last year.  I found it easier and more reliable just to manually set the mime types in mozilla to use helper applications like xmms.

[Calum]

yes, but might as well have plugger to catch all the ones you haven't associated yet as and when they come up.

actually is there a way to fix this issue without using plugger? plugger is pretty annoying sometimes.

it is used by default in mandrake and it used to open up openoffice and fail about 60% of the time to open the document before crashing, and then when i directly associated the file types with openoffice, the problem disappeared.

[Kintaro]

apt-get install plugger

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by me:
actually is there a way to fix this issue without using plugger? plugger is pretty annoying sometimes.

 

quote:Originally posted by X11:
apt-get install plugger

so, i ask again...

[Faust]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
apt-get install plugger

faust:/home/u2564793# apt-get install plugger
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package plugger has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package plugger has no installation candidate

Do you actually use debian X11 i thought you were a red hat man?  Maybe now you'll actually read someone elses post before you reply?  

[Faust]

BTW if someone later points out that this could be a problem with my mirror I dont want to hear about it, the rebuke stands -
u2564793@faust:~$ < /home/1_files/Contents-i386 | grep -i plugger
u2564793@faust:~$

edit : changed cat to < in order to look like I was all cool and knew not to waste a process...  

[ April 02, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[Calum]

quote:Do you actually use debian X11 i thought you were a red hat man? Maybe now you'll actually read someone elses post before you reply?

and maybe monkeys might fly out of my butt...

[ April 02, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for peace & freedom ]

[Faust]

now *THAT* i would pay to see!  

[emh]

I did finally get it working.

I did that by installing Opera 7.1 beta and using it instead....

Don't get me wrong, Mozilla is great, but I just like Opera more.