[CLUE-Talk] FYI: Plugin for Mplayer

[Tim Harris]

For those Linux desktop users, there is now a fairly polished plugin for 
Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu). You can find it at 
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/index.html. It works with Mozilla, 
Netscape, Opera and Konquerer. It will allow you to play those window 
media and quicktime (and other multimedia)  movie trailers and video 
that are linked in web pages such as  http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and 
http://www.windowsmedia.com/. This is cool to me because both are open 
source and don't require Wine or any other Windows faker software like 
Crossover to work.  They already have Fedora and Red Hat rpms as well as 
source code tarballs. I'd like to know if anyone else has tried it out 
and to let me know what you think I've been very impressed so far. It 
loads streaming quicktime movies faster than quicktime itself and 
doesn't use as many resources as Wine applications.

Tim Harris