CNN.com Free Video

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:49:49PM -0500, Rick Tomaschuk wrote
> I complained to CNN that I couldn't view their videos at CNN.com using
> Linux but all I received was the standard auto reply below. Maybe if
> enough people send complaints we can get their attention. I guess they
> are more interested in using 'misery' to sell soap than any social
> responsibility.

  I can play CNN videos, but it's flakey.  Here's my setup...
  1) install mplayer, including win32codecs so it can handle Media
     Player files
  2) install mplayerplug-in

  Clicking on a video brings up a warning dialogue from CNN, about not
being able to determine the version of Media Player.  There are 3
buttons on the dialogue.  Choose "Continue to video".

  It does play, sometimes over and over and over, forcing me to kill X.
I did say that it was flakey.

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