Kenneth Jacker wrote: > david> What program are you using to view these videos (totem, > david> mplayer, etc)? > > I'm running linux-2.6.8-2-686. I click links (with 'firefox') on the > CNN "video site", and a new window is created. Within it is the > opening "Media Player" animated logo which eventually displays the > (silent) piece I've selected. So far I can't figure out what player you are using. > "About:plugins" in 'firefox' shows, "Windows Media Player Plug-in > Dynamic Link Library", followed by: > > MIME TYPE DESC SUFFIXES ENABLED > application/asx Media Files * Yes > video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes > application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes > video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes > video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes > audio/x-ms-wma Media Files wma,* Yes > audio/x-ms-wax Media Files wax,* Yes > video/x-ms-wmv Media Files wmv,* Yes > video/x-ms-wvx Media Files wvx,* Yes Something has been installed to play those files but I can't determine from this what player that would be. Try downloading a video and then playing the video directly using an application such as mplayer or vlc. I suspect that will work fine. (However, getting the video from the web site I suspect to be trouble because they try to make that difficult.) Earlier you wrote: > I can hear sound from CDs, radio and TV, but not when viewing CNN > videos via 'firefox'. I've messed with various "mixer" setting, but > still can't hear anything (BTW, which mixer channel should it be?) Those may be using the direct wire from device to device. For example when playing CDs directly from the player a different audio path is usually taken than when playing stored music files. So it may be that you can play CDs but not other audio on the machine. Can you play mp3s or oggs when you have this sound problem? Bob
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