Firefox Media streaming problem on CNN site

waelaltaqi · 10-26-2005, 12:54 AM

I read on the CNN a lot and i'm not able to make firefox to stream the videos ......could anybody solve this problem ??? i installed a Firefox plugin called : MediaPlayerConnectivity .... it should redirect the streaming media to an external program like XINE but it didn't work ...anybody csn help ???

spooon · 10-26-2005, 01:01 AM

I've never heard of it, does it work in Linux? I know that there are Mplayer plug-ins and stuff.

waelaltaqi · 10-26-2005, 01:13 AM

i'm not using Mplayer for now ..... i'm using XINE .... but unfortuantly Windows Media Player is limiting Firefox's ability to supoort a lot of video streaming sites ... i don't know if anybody solved this yet ..

jlo_sandog · 10-29-2005, 04:21 AM

hello

I have FC4, with gxine and mplayer installed.
I can watch cnn video with both players. I have one of my browsers (firefox) with the mplayer-plugin installed and another one (mozilla) with a modified gxine plugin. The modification for the gxine is very simple. On the gxine package there is a fie named plugin.c
Find the part that says "gxine starter plugin" and change it to something mentioning "Widows Media Player - gxine plugin"
compile as usual and install