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Old 05-23-2003, 11:50 AM   #1
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Question Media Player on Linux??


Hi.

Before Linux, I used to watch some news videos but now I cant because when I get in the page, I get an advise telling me that I should have windows media player.

But now Im using linux and netscape... how can I keep watching these videos?
 
Old 05-23-2003, 12:06 PM   #2
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what website?
 
Old 05-23-2003, 12:06 PM   #3
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It may depend on what video type they're streaming. You can view most video types from the Internet using Mplayer's Plugger plugin.

First head over the http://www.mplayer.hq then goto http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html and get the plugin working.

Good Luck
 
  


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