[Linux] Firefox plugin mplayer problem

[StephenW]

This morning, while attempting to use YAHOO (with Firefox 2.0.0.3) its video
news feeds will not play.  They did last night.  It wanted me to install
x-ms-wmp.  After a couple of "google" attempts I found this.  Not sure what it
all means... Except it does not help me get things going again

winstephen

two distros - same problem, SuSE 10.2 and SimplyMepis 3.5
still working in WinXP

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  	 PostPosted: Apr Sat 21st 2007 12:12pm     
This was posted on the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download page by
"Rossman" on Sat 21 April 2007 14:21
Quote:
re: Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download

I have posted sample code on how to use the new plug-in in Firefox (as well as
good ole IE) at my website at:
http://www.therossman.org/experiments/wmp_play.html

Hope this helps someone out, I've also covered z-index Windows Media Player and
Flash which has been a huge problem until this new plugin was released,

Thanks for finally getting this out there, Microsoft!

Cheers,
Rossman

>From his http://www.therossman.org/experiments/wmp_play.html web page:
Quote:
This is a quick HOWTO on the new Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox. It
will show you how to create the Windows Media Player object in both Firefox and
Internet Explorer, playing back video in the plugin, and also scripting the
plug-in and listening for events in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. To make
it a little more fun I've also built a flash user interface which will call the
javascript functions to control the Windows Media Player

Rossman uses the new MIME type, "application/x-ms-wmp" in his page code.
Searching Google on "application/x-ms-wmp" I came up with:
http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_anderson/archive/2007/04/16/windows-media-player-on-firefox.aspx
which says,
Quote:
If you use the plug-ins new MIME type though, you can take advantage of fuller
design time parameter support, based on 9.0 interfaces. We will have the MSDN
documentation updated to reflect the supported tags/elements in the near
future. In the meantime, if you want to start using the new plug-in, you can
force your sites to use it by using the new application/x-ms-wmp MIME type.

Just one more example of exclusive coding, since it would eliminate non-IE
browsers except for those able to use the new ffwmp plugin.
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Alice Wyman