mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

[jason henson]

Gary Kline wrote:

>	What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get
>	mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox?
>	(Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone
>	to work with links?)
>
>	Here is what's happening:  I have everything installed;
>	checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is
>	there.  But when I try to listen to anything windows, 
>	the stream seems to load, but there is nosound.  There 
>	are no controls.  A right-mouse click brings up a small
>	window.  "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the 
>	options does no good.  If I click on the full-screen
>	option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed.
>
>	I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks.
>	Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to
>	work?  I've poked around and don't see anything very 
>	helpful on this port.  Any mplayer wizards out there???
>
>	gary
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do you have the win32-codecs port installed?  If not install that then 
recompile mplayer and the plugin.