[MPlayer-users] mplayer and links2

[Ivan Kalvachev]

Cheryl Homiak said:
> Has anybody successfully added mplayer to the associations in setup for
> links2. I have tried to do this using video/x-ms-asf. when I get to a file
> of this type, I'm given the choice to open with window media save or
> display even though I unchecked the box about having it ask me whether to
> open mplayer or not. when I choose the link to open with windows media,
> (the label I used not the player) it appears to go to mplayer but only
> goes through the opening info about conf files etc and lists usage an
> exits.
> 1. is there something else I need to do (an option I need to put in to the
> associations) to get this to work?
> 2. what other filetypes should I list under "content-type" besides
> video/x-ms-asf?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

>From your discription it looks like you are not suplying the URL of the
file you have to play. My wild guess is to use `mplayer %`
but most probably it would download the file and then run mplayer.

Wish You Best
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive