firefox complains of missing plugins for wma or ram

**nhasian** · April 18th, 2009

In ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04, I am unable to play:

http://audio.islamweb.net/audio/list...10951&type=wma

or

http://audio.islamweb.net/audio/list...10951&type=ram

firefox says "additional plugins required" and has a button for install plugins which does nothing.

how can i make these files play in firefox? Please note i have mplayer, and vlc installed both of which play wma or ram files if they are saved to my desktop, but i can not play them in firefox.

please advise,

thanks in advance!

**markofealing** · April 18th, 2009

Same here on Ubuntu 8.10!

**nhasian** · April 18th, 2009

i havent figured it out for wma yet, but i got it working for ram. in a terminal type:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla && sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

**Paqman** · April 18th, 2009

You could also try the Firefox VLC plugin (click to install).

**nhasian** · April 18th, 2009

i have the vlc plugin installed but its still doesnt work. are we missing a step? like telling firefox to use the vlc plugin for certain filetypes?

Originally Posted by Paqman

You could also try the Firefox VLC plugin (click to install).

**Paqman** · April 19th, 2009

I don't really know much about trying to play wma files, as I never really need to, but you might want to try connecting to the Medibuntu repository, run an update and download the package w32codecs.