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Has anyone ever tried to watch a video on MSN and got the following message,
"This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 7. To download these free software applications, click the links below and follow the on-screen instructions."
I have MPlayer installed with the w32 codecs, Xine full video capability.kaffene,is there something i'm missing?
obviously, i prefer a nix flavor.
Suse 10.0

Hi

I watch videos on CNN with mostly no problems using the media plugins to mplayer for Firefox (I am assuming you are using Mozilla / Firefox?) Maybe they are similar and the info below will help.

Look for this file:

mplayerplug-in-3.11.tar.gz

or just Google for mplayerplugin. You'll also need the Gecko SDK for Firefox in order to compile the MPlayer plugin for Firefox:

gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.3.tar.gz

Also ensure that you have any and -all- codecs you can find for MPlayer installed. Then compile and install the MPlayer plugin, and it should start working... at least, this approach worked for me and I can now watch CNN videos. I suspect that MSN will be much the same...

Just make sure you read the MPlayer plugin documentation. I did this a long while ago, and can't remember if it was painless or needed some fiddling in order to get it working.

Hi rylan76,
Yeah I'm using Firefox. I'm using suse 10.0 I downloaded the gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.3.tar.gz and it gave this output;
linux:/home/boyles/Documents/Lojacked # tar -xzvf mplayerplug-in-4.11.tar.gz
mplayerplug-in/
mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in.types
mplayerplug-in/LICENSE
mplayerplug-in/config.h.in
mplayerplug-in/Makefile.in
mplayerplug-in/common/
mplayerplug-in/common/npwin.cpp
mplayerplug-in/common/npmac.cpp
mplayerplug-in/common/npunix.c
mplayerplug-in/configure
mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in.spec
mplayerplug-in/po/
mplayerplug-in/po/es.po
mplayerplug-in/po/ko.po
mplayerplug-in/po/fr.po
mplayerplug-in/po/en_US.po
mplayerplug-in/po/ja.po
mplayerplug-in/po/Makefile.in
mplayerplug-in/po/pt_BR.po
mplayerplug-in/po/da.po
mplayerplug-in/po/it.po
mplayerplug-in/po/ru.po
mplayerplug-in/po/sk.po
mplayerplug-in/po/nl.po
mplayerplug-in/po/de.po
mplayerplug-in/po/pl.po
mplayerplug-in/po/mplayerplug-in.pot
mplayerplug-in/po/nb.po
mplayerplug-in/ChangeLog
mplayerplug-in/install.sh
mplayerplug-in/TODO
mplayerplug-in/uninstall.sh
mplayerplug-in/whatoptions.sh
mplayerplug-in/INSTALL
mplayerplug-in/include/
mplayerplug-in/include/npplat.h
mplayerplug-in/include/pluginbase.h
mplayerplug-in/install.sh.in
mplayerplug-in/Source/
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-threads.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-setup.h
mplayerplug-in/Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin.h
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-ui.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-support.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/nsScriptablePeer.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-list.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/plugin-setup.cpp
mplayerplug-in/Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.idl
mplayerplug-in/Source/nsScriptablePeer.h
mplayerplug-in/Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.xpt
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/mplayerplug-in-fc2.x86-64.spec
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/mplayerplug-in-fc1.spec
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/mplayerplug-in-jds.spec
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/mplayerplug-in-rhl9.spec
mplayerplug-in/specfiles/mplayerplug-in-fc2.spec
mplayerplug-in/extras/
mplayerplug-in/extras/strlcat.c
mplayerplug-in/extras/strlcpy.c
mplayerplug-in/extras/memmem.c
mplayerplug-in/plugingate/
mplayerplug-in/plugingate/npn_gate.cpp
mplayerplug-in/plugingate/np_entry.cpp
mplayerplug-in/plugingate/npp_gate.cpp
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/logo.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/fs_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/rew_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/progress_middle.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/stop_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/progress_fill.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/play_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/logo.png
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/rew_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/progress_right.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/pause_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/gtk_logo.h
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/progress_left.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/fs_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/pause_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/stop_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/ff_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/play_down_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/pixmaps/ff_up_small.xpm
mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in.conf
mplayerplug-in/configure.in
mplayerplug-in/README
mplayerplug-in/DOCS/
mplayerplug-in/DOCS/tech/
mplayerplug-in/DOCS/tech/locking_rules.txt
mplayerplug-in/DOCS/tech/javascript.txt
but there was no mplayerplug.so, also the intall gave me this;
./configure
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: Determining mozilla/firefox packages to link against
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for mozilla-plugin... configure: WARNING: mozilla-plugin not found
checking for firefox-plugin... configure: WARNING: firefox-plugin not found
checking for seamonkey-plugin... configure: WARNING: seamonkey-plugin not found
configure: error: Unable to find mozilla or firefox development files
any suggestions?

Ok success, I took a lazy way out. I installed apt from the CDs added a couple of repositories and from the command line issued apt-get install mplayerplug-in and "viola" looking at video online thanks for the leads and your time,
Cheers