Comments on: How to watch Windows Media Video streams on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)

By: hstagner

hstagner — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:51:37 +0000

Hello migs,

To get mplayer to work in Firefox, I believe the only package you need to remove is “totem-mozilla”.

I finally found out which package it was after a recent build of Ubuntu 7.10 on a new system that I have been working on.

I hope this helps. I will edit the post accordingly. Thank you for reading!

Regards,

Harley Stagner

By: migs

migs — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:56:47 +0000

the list of packages for removal is huge when searching on gstreamer, including totem etc. so i’m reluctant to commit that change, can you be more specific about packages for removal?

By: woody

woody — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:07:19 +0000

Why would you want to watch a windows media video?

By: hstagner

hstagner — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:25:25 +0000

You’re Welcome! I am glad I could help. I think you’ll find that after a while using the command line in Ubuntu is much easier than drilling through cascading menus in Windows

If you start using Ubuntu more often, check out my post on How to have the terminal at your command with one key.

By: Wray

Wray — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:42:09 +0000

THANKS! That was easy enough….from one who is continually tripping over himself trying to learn how to spell Ubuntu, let alone drive it. At least I can listen to my favorite http://www.berliner-rundfunk.de while U-B-U-N-T…….uh, next?