Opera and Windows media and Real files

How do you get Opera to play Windows Media and Real Player files? They wont 
play in Opera but work fine with IE 7. 

"Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote
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> Op Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:00:22 +0100 schreef Dick Hurtz
<null@unix.site>:
>
>> How do you get Opera to play Windows Media and Real Player files? They

>> wont play in Opera but work fine with IE 7.
>
> You mean playing in embedded plugins, or opening a separate player window?

> Both should 'just work', depending on how the site offers the media files,

> if you've installed Windows Media Player and Real Player in the normal way

> and didn't disable plug-ins.
>

Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Depends on the site. I subscribe 
to a site that has audio files in Windows Media and when I try to run the 
file I get this error message:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support
the 
file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the 
file."

The file is called stream.asf. The files open just fine in IE. Quicktime 
files in other sites work OK. 

Op Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:00:22 +0100 schreef Dick Hurtz <null@unix.site>:

> How do you get Opera to play Windows Media and Real Player files? They  
> wont play in Opera but work fine with IE 7.

You mean playing in embedded plugins, or opening a separate player window?  
Both should 'just work', depending on how the site offers the media files,  
if you've installed Windows Media Player and Real Player in the normal way  
and didn't disable plug-ins.

-- 
                                                      Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                    Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
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"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users

"Dick Hurtz" <null@unix.site> wrote in message 
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>
> "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@opera.invalid.removethis.com>
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> message news:op.t7udzj1xl50eft@laptop-rock.lan...
>> Op Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:00:22 +0100 schreef Dick Hurtz
<null@unix.site>:
>>
>>> How do you get Opera to play Windows Media and Real Player files?
They 
>>> wont play in Opera but work fine with IE 7.
>>
>> You mean playing in embedded plugins, or opening a separate player 
>> window? Both should 'just work', depending on how the site offers the 
>> media files, if you've installed Windows Media Player and Real Player
in 
>> the normal way and didn't disable plug-ins.
>>
>
> Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Depends on the site. I 
> subscribe to a site that has audio files in Windows Media and when I try 
> to run the file I get this error message:
>
> "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not
support 
> the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the

> file."
>
> The file is called stream.asf. The files open just fine in IE. Quicktime 
> files in other sites work OK.

Followup: I searched through the Opera help online but the information must 
be hopelessly out of date. The files in the Windows Media and Real 
directories that the help suggested that I copy to the Opera plugin 
directory don't exist on my system. The information must apply to XP or an 
older system, not 64 bit Vista. 

"JernejSimončič" <jernej@deepthought.ena.invalid> wrote in
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> on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:24:34 -0700, Dick Hurtz wrote:
>
>> The file is called stream.asf. The files open just fine in IE.
Quicktime
>> files in other sites work OK.
>
> Can you link to the site? I haven't had any problems with the Windows 
> Media
> files so far...
>
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> < Jernej Simončič ><>◊<>< jernej simoncic at isg
si >
> end

Unfortunately I cant. It’s a pay site and you need a password. (Not porn. 
Its RushLimbaugh.com). I did find something called the Windows Media Firefox 
plugin, installed it, and some streaming media content now works - for 
example from CBC News. But not the stream.asf files from Rush Limbaugh.