Re: [MPlayer-users] Installing/configuring mplayer plugin

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

faxmodem@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:26:57PM -0600, John McKee wrote:
> 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.

The point is, you're talking about a helper application.
As Kevin pointed out, your problem is the site probably points to a URL
using href="". In that case it's just mozilla doesn't know about
protocol mms. You can fiddle as much as you want with your MIME types it
won't work. Mozilla can only call helpers if the document is linked e.g.
inside an <embed> tag.

So you'd need to register a new protocol in mozilla. I don't think that's
possible on a user base. You could check typing "about::config" in your
address bar though -
 

I was told by another person how to configure mplayer (or gmplayer) to
handle mms.  It does not require the mplayerplug-in.

You are on the right track with about:config.  I just was not comfortable messing with that.

What I was told to do was:

go to about:config
right click somewhere on the main window, choose New->String
for preference name, type network.protocol-handler.app.mms
for the value, type in the path to the executable.

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.

John McKee
 

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