Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

[Patrick Rittich <prittich@dowco.com>]

Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > > > > Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips 
> > > > > (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in
> > > > > Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Nope, not me.
> > >
> > > Not firefox, but it works in mozilla with the m-player plug-in.
> >
> > Just works for me in Firefox: 2.6.16, firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1,
> > mozilla-mplayer 3.25-7.
> >
> > So what am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Perhaps they require w32codecs from the Marillat repository. Could
> Patrick and John (Fjellstad) confirm?
I have the w32codecs installed, don't know if the site requires them.

Also, how long do you give the site to show the video? I had to wait 
over 2 minutes before anything displayed. Mplayer just send "connecting 
to site:...." for a long time.

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Patrick Rittich