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faxmodem@free.fr wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:26:57PM -0600, John McKee
wrote:
<br>> I thought that all that needed to be done was specifify in the Helper
applications the information needed to activate the mplayer plugin.
As I said, I can play the same stream when I pass the URL as a parameter
to mplayer. This is not to say that I know how mozilla handles this
internally.
<p>The point is, you're talking about a helper application.
<br>As Kevin pointed out, your problem is the site probably points to a
URL
<br>using href="mms://". In that case it's just mozilla doesn't know about
<br>protocol mms. You can fiddle as much as you want with your MIME types
it
<br>won't work. Mozilla can only call helpers if the document is linked
e.g.
<br>inside an <embed> tag.
<p>So you'd need to register a new protocol in mozilla. I don't think that's
<br>possible on a user base. You could check typing "<a href="about::config">about::config</a>"
in your
<br>address bar though -
<br><a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users"></a> </blockquote>
I was told by another person how to configure mplayer (or gmplayer) to
handle mms. It does not require the mplayerplug-in.
<p>You are on the right track with <A HREF="about:config">about:config</A>. I just was not comfortable
messing with that.
<p>What I was told to do was:
<p>go to <A HREF="about:config">about:config</A>
<br>right click somewhere on the main window, choose New->String
<br>for preference name, type network.protocol-handler.app.mms
<br>for the value, type in the path to the executable.
<p>I do not have gmplayer installed, so I used mplayer. Works fine.
The person who sent me this used gmplayer and he said that mplayer acted
strangely on startup. On my system, two mplayer processes get started
when I click the link, and there is a noticeable lag before the stream
starts, probably due to buffering. So, mitakenly, I clicked the link
a second time. That started a second set of two mplayer processes.
Things get a bit jumbled when the same stream is being played twice, but
from slightly different places.
<p>John McKee
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