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Plugin Windows Media Player under Linux

Abstract: Windows Media Player it would probably all happy to do this, especially if we use Linux.

The problem arises however, when for example we visit a site such as EarthCam (a directory that collects hundreds of cameras scattered around the world) that provides all his movies streaming format Windows Media Video. In this case, under Linux you miss both the player from Microsoft, is the plugin for the browser that allows you to view the video embedded in a webpage. Fortunately there is a solution that allows you to express best remedy to the problem and that is to use in mplayer coupled with mplayerplug-in.

mplayer is a free player and quite known in the Linux world, and its caratterististica that interests us most is the fact that it can play a stream in Windows Media Video.

mplayerplug-in is a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox that uses mplayer to play movies directly on the webpage.

On ubuntu 7.10 the two tools are available in the official repository for the installation becomes banal and performs the usual way:

"Sudo apt-get install mplayer mplayerplug-in".

For installation manual I refer you directly instead driving.

Visit the official site of mplayer.

Visit the official site of mplayerplug-in.

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