[MPlayer-users] problem with mplayerplug-in and wmv

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Kevin DeKorte wrote:

>>It almost seems like my system is not configured to play wmv with 
>>mplayer/mplayerplug-in.  I tried epiphany browser and mpg and mov play 
>>fine in the plugin but wmv opens in totem.
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>Sounds like a misconfigured webserver. Many sites for some reason have
>wmv to have a mimetype of text/plain and when it is set that way
>mplayerplug-in is never called and then firefox calls the extension
>handler. You can use wget to get the url in question and it will tell
>you what mimetype the webserver is reporting. Firefox seems to ignore
>the extensions that the plugins register. I have opened a bug with them
>about this, but the Firefox team claims that there is no problem. 
>
>You can view the registered plugins/mimetypes on your system by opening
>the location of "about:plugins" in Firefox.
>
>Also note that the mplayerplug-in.types file is only used when the
>use-mimetypes option is set to 1 (which for 99% of the people you don't
>want this set). See the mplayerplug-in.sf.net website for more
>configuration information.
>
>Kevin
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Well I think I see what you are talking about.  The files that crash 
have an extension of wmv.  When I look at the properties of the file 
however it says the mime type is video/x-ms-asf.

Is this my problem?

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