Anyone have cnn.com videos working in linux?

[jim ruxton]

Hi I have it working. I downloaded mplayer-plugin. http://mplayerplug-
in.sourceforge.net/ and made sure I had all the codecs installed.
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html  The one confusing
thing is when I load a CNN window I get a grey box with an icon of a
film strip and an x to close the box. To start the video I have to click
on the x when I thought I would have to click on the icon. 
jim
> 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 not tried it, but you can use the Useragent Switcher extension for 
> Firefox to change your browser's identification.
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=59
> 
> I'm not sure that this will help if the site is asking for Windows Media 
> Player. Does/can mplayer mimic Media Player?
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