[MPlayer-users] "cast-tv" video clips

[Stan Goodman]

I am using MPlayer v1.0rc2-r29116-2 and the Mozilla plugin v3.55-0.pm.1, 
under openSuSE v11.1.

The website of the Jerusalem Post newspaper <wwwpost.com> includes topical 
video clips daily. (These are on the home page, near the top, toward the 
left side.) When I click on them, MPlayer opens, and shows me a brief 
advertisement, which then repeats  ad infinitum (or alternatively, 
MPlayer stops). I never get to see the clip.

The source of the clips is a company called Cast-TV. Some time ago I wrote 
to them asking for advice, and got the curt reply "We don't support 
Linux". My remark that the Internet is intended to be agnostic with 
regard to operating systems fell on deaf virtual ears.

The website of the company <www.cast-tv.com> claims that it supports the 
following: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari Windows Media Player; I am using 
Firefox v3.0.11, but I had the same problem with much earlier versions as 
well. Given that I seem to be equipped according to the advertised 
prerequisites, I feel I should be able to view the clips.

If there is a way for me to do so, perhaps by installing an auxilliary 
software, I would like to do so. Failing that, I would like to know some 
detail about what it is that is preventing me from doing so, so that I 
can mount a campaign to get it to change.