[CentOS] Videos

Jim Perrin
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:20:38 -0000

On 3/8/07, Ted Gervais <ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca>
wrote:
> I am trying to get my latest installation of Centos (4.4) to see videos
> when I am in www.cnn.com.
> I installed mplayer using yum and that went well. But I still get the
> screen from microsoft saying I need to install their plugin..

Welcome to the world of "doesn't everyone use microsoft?"

> What more can I do to get these videos to work when I use either mozilla
> or konqueror..

You need to install mplayerplug-in, and very likely the w32codecs (no
rpm available because of intellectual property and blah blah).

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