[olug] Web video on Linux/Firefox

[Brandon Lederer]

I installed a mess of video plugins too...... Mplayer plugins was a big batch 
of em.  I can play every video I've tried, except MSN videos.  Anyone ever 
found a solution to this?

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:16 am, Brandon Petersen wrote:
> I installed the Flash Plugin using a normal user account, not root. I am
> able to see the Flash videos on abcnews.com <http://abcnews.com>. It copies
> the files into that user's .mozilla directory.
>
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> Brandon Petersen, http://www.brandonpetersen.com
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> On 10/26/05, Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Mrs. will actually admit to like using Linux once in a while and
> > it took her a bit longer before she would admit to liking Firefox.
> > But she's not totally sold, because she can't play videos on webpages.
> >
> > One of her examples is "abcnews.com <http://abcnews.com>". I go there,
> > try to play a
> > video, and it says it needs Flash Player 7. I downloaded Flash Player
> > 7 for Linux, quit Firefox, and installed it as root. Now when I go to
> > abcnews.com <http://abcnews.com> and click on the video link, I see the
> > ABCNews logo in the
> > player, but the video never plays.
> >
> > Anyone have any insight?
> >
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