Hi James Thanks for reply Yes I am trying to play the flash player. The flash player properties was type unknown now after I changed it to mime Error message Could not find mime type application/octet-stream My first experience with flash properties now other flash files are MIME type Should have left as was Are you aware of reconfiguring Flash Properties? IIUC What is that? Understand that mplayer needs configuration the Question is HOW Maurice James Tyrer wrote: > Maurice Arthur wrote: > >> Hi KDE users >> >> Synaptic search and install Mplayer in Simple Mepis Version 8 >> >> Unable to have Mplayer play a saved Flash video file from Temp Dir >> to Desktop >> >> Have installed a number of Libxine1 files but still unable to have >> Mplayer run in Mepis 8 >> >> Any help to solve this Mplayer problem appreciated >> >> > IIRC, the Flash codec is in libavcodec. That is in the FFMPEG package. > > OTHO, do you want to play a video that is embedded in the Flash player > (e.g. UTube) in MPlayer. I haven't tried that but IIUC, it is a matter > of configuration of MPlayer. > > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.