Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4656 mails)

[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Lewis wrote:
> Any suggestions for how to get video working on sites that return:
> 
> The CNN.com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9 or
> above.
> We are unable to determine the version of Windows Media Player installed.
> 
> If you choose to not upgrade your player to Windows Media Player 9 or above
> your overall experience may be affected.  You may continue to veiw the Video
> without a player upgrade, although you may be prompted to install a
> Microsoft
> Windows codec in order to do so.
> 
> Mplayer did come up but went into a continuous loop and never played the
> video from this site.  Does anyone have this working?
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/video/
> 
> Click on any of the videos on the right hand side will probably reproduce
> the issue I am talking about.

I went to the site and clicked on a video on the right hand side.

The weird notice about mickeysoft media player appeared, and I clicked the
"continue to video" button. A player window popped up, and the news clip
played, with no problems, just as I would expect.

No special setup here, just suse 10.1 + packman, using mplayer plugin.

Joe
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