Hi,
I have RedHat Linux with Mozilla and Firefox but have no access to the root. I have installed Mplayer-1.0rcl into my home directory and it works always opening even all wmv files. No problems with that ever. Media file is either downloaded to tmp directory (outside my homedirectory)and played automaticlly or I can choose to download the file to my homedirectory and then open it for hand. All that works fine.
But, when I try to open a video from one page on internet directly then I just get a gray area (in the page where the video should be runed) and get the following message:
"This page contains information of a type (application/x-mplayer2) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.
Click OK to download Plugin."
When I click "ok" I get to the Windows Media download center to download Windows Media Player.

Is there any chance to sort this out without Windows Media Player cause my Mplayer runs all wmv files perfectly. I also heard that I should download Internet Explorer for Linux to be able to play media from pages like this. Must I do that (I would rather not)?

Sorry for the long question.

Get mplayerplug-in:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/mplayerplug-in/

Where? And when I find it what then?

In your repos (using up2date, apt-get, yum ...) or the above link.
Install it (rpm -Uvh package_name.rpm)

I do not think usual admin tools will work.

Thank you very much, I installed it. But now when I open the page the mplayer plugin opens and says "Playing" but I still can not see the video. Then after a time it says "stopped" as if it is finished with playing. Changing in "options" (like the buffer time or cache place and size)does not make it play.
I had no truble installing and no error messages. What did I do wrong?

Right-click and choose another video output. x11 will do I guess.

Sorry, but nothing changes. I still get same message and no video.

Could you post a link for your video?

Does this one work(could be codec related)?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/

That one plays perfectly. But my video is not playing still. What do you mean codec related?

What I mean is that my codecs are in the directory that mplayer can always find. I had never problems with codecs before.

Maybe my mplayer plugin can not find codecs because they arein my home directory and not where they should be. That maybe means that I should run conigure plugin again but with an option that shows to the plugin where my codecs are. What command should I use for this?

No that does not work either.

Could you post link to your video? Can you watch videos from CNN?

No I can not play cnn videos. Why?

I can not post my link because it's password protected and you will not be able to open it.