Plugins Windows Media Player under Linux

Abstract: Windows Media Player it we would probably all do without, especially if we use Linux.

The problem arises however when we visit such a site such as EarthCam (a directory which contains hundreds of webcams scattered around the world) that provides all its movies in streaming Windows Media Video. In this case, under Linux you would miss both the player from Microsoft, is the browser plugin that allows you to view the video embedded in a web page. Fortunately there's a solution that compensates optimally the problem and that is to use mplayer matched with mplayerplug-in.

mplayer is a free player and rather famous in the Linux world, and its caratterististica that interests us most is that it can play a stream in Windows Media format videos.

mplayerplug-in is instead a plugin for Mozilla Firefox which uses mplayer to play movies directly on your webpage.

Ubuntu 7.10 on the two tools are available in the official repositories so the installation becomes trivial and is done in the usual way:

Sudo apt-get install mplayer mplayerplug-in.

For manual installation instead I refer you directly to the guide .

Visit the official site of mplayer.

Visit the official site of mplayerplug-in.