Listening to streaming Windows Media Player audio in Firefox

thort · 02-13-2006, 09:59 AM

Hi!

I want to listen to streaming Windows Media Player audio in Firefox. I want to get a plugin that's works.

When I connect to the radiostation Radiocity I get this Firefox popup error message:

You need to have Windows Media player installed to use this service.

And then, when selecting a station Linux return this error message:

Totem could not play 'fd://0'. There where no decoders found to handle the stream, you might need to install the corresponding plugins.

I've learned Microsoft don't provide any Windows Media Player plugin for Linux. But I've read the mplayer could be configured to play this streaming audio sound.

I have a working mplayer installed which plays wma-files.

So, now, as mentioned above, my Totem player tries to play the audio stream, but fails.

Shall I configure mplayer for the stream?

If so, how can this be done?

I run gnome on Ubuntu.

thort · 02-13-2006, 11:53 AM

Hi!

I got a tips and installed a plugin called mozilla-mplayer from the Ubuntu repository using apt.

It's designed to play digital media from websites.

Here is the adress: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/index.php

But I can't get it to work. I still get the error message telling Totem is missing an audio codec. But it's mplayer that shall handle the audio stream.

What to do? All suggestions are welcome.

dive · 02-13-2006, 12:01 PM

You probably have a totem plugin installed that gets priority over mplayer plugin. Check in firefox by typing 'about: plugins' (without the space after : ) in the address bar. Get the filename and then try locate it in your firefox plugins dir and remove it.

thort · 02-13-2006, 01:06 PM

Thanks dive!

I've done as you suggest and found the Totem plugin to remove. I's located in usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins. The file is called libtotem_mozilla.so.

This I can see in Nautilus. But I don't have permission to remove the file in Nautilus.

So, I opened up the Terminal and tried to browse to the directory. But I can't get any further than to usr/lib. Trying to type cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox gives the message no such file or directory.

Look here:

Code:

root@thortsystem:/usr/lib# cd /mozilla-firefox
bash: cd: /mozilla-firefox: No such file or directory

Very frustrating!

The command dir lists all directories under /usr/lib. I can see the mozilla-firefox direcrory but I can't go into it.

What have I missed!

Sorry for being a newbee at browsing in the Terminal.

Just want to delete /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libtotem_mozilla.so

dive · 02-13-2006, 01:27 PM

You probably need to be root then.

Open a terminal
Type su -
Type the root password

Now you should be able to navigate and remove it but be VERY carefull what you do as root

thort · 02-13-2006, 01:35 PM

At Last!

I succeeded!

I wroted in the Terminal:

Code:

thort@thortsystem:~$ sudo -s -H
Password:
root@thortsystem:/home/thort#  rm /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libtotem_mozilla.so
root@thortsystem:/home/thort#

And that's not all.

Now the mplayer plugin works. I can listen to streaming audio. My webradio works.

Very good!

Thanks dive!