Anyone have cnn.com videos working in linux?

[Craig Routledge]

On 09/23/2005 07:43:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   The cnn.com site has quite a few "Watch:" links, but they come back
> with a complaint about media player plugin not detected.  Mplayer is
> perfectly capable of playing the videos, but the HTML is tilted towards
> IE.  Anybody manage to get it working in linux under Firefox?

I've had luck with the mozplugger program.  It invokes whatever program is  
specified by your system's MIME-type database.  It even seems to play the  
video within the web browser.  I tried it.  It worked.  I didn't look any  
more closely at it.  Your milage *will* vary.

See http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/


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