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hi guys,

 

i'd like my media to play in mplayer instead of totem.

 

when i click on some (usually mms or windows video links) totem starts and then complains that it can't play the file.

 

if i run the file via cli (the terminal) as below, then it works fine in mplayer

 

Quote:[anyweb@localhost ~]$ mplayer mms://a1441.v165327.c16532.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1441/16532/v0001/nhl.download.akamai.com/16532/wm.nhl.na-central/comp/best_of/07/bestof_theweek_vol_7_700.wmvMPlayer 1.0rc1-rpm.livna.org-4.1.1 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)

CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1

Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

 

Playing mms://a1441.v165327.c16532.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1441/16532/v0001/nhl.download.akamai.com/16532/wm.nhl.na-central/comp/best_of/07/bestof_theweek_vol_7_700.wmv.

 

so my question is, how can I force firefox to use mplayer instead of totem for these files ?

 

cheers

anyweb

Well, I don't know how to add it to mplayer-plugin but it's easy enough to setup firefox to magically open mplayer when it sees that protocol.

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]Open about:config

[*]In the filter field type network.protocol-handler

[*]Right click and select New > String if you don't see network.protocol-handler.app.mms. Once you have the entry setup the path to be the full path to mplayer (something like /usr/bin/mplayer).

[*]Right click and select New > Boolean if you don't see network.protocol-handler.external.mms. Set that entry to be true.

[*]Restart firefox.

[*]Type in the stream URL into the address bar, firefox will indicate that you are opening an external program, check the box and click on launch.

</ol>That's it, now when encountered firefox will open mplayer for all the mms:// protocols. You can use a similar method to have firefox open lots of different applications for various different protocols (say mailto: opening your preferred mail client, etc).

Or , if you want Multimedia Player (MPlayer) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox yum -y install mplayerplug-in

johnny06

i have the mplayer plugin loaded already as per the fedora core release 6 goodies post,

 

however firefox still defaults to playing certain videos in totem, i'll try what znx suggested later and post the results here

 

cheers

anyweb

Quote:Or , if you want Multimedia Player (MPlayer) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox

 

Sorry to say but the mplayer plugin doesn't add support for the mms:// protocol.

well what (if anything) does add support for it ?

 

I tried the suggestions above (editing about:config) and while it plays the original link that i did via cmd line before, now when i click on a video link in bbc's newsite., i get another totem error

 

why ?

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Hrmm, well I guess that Gnome is somehow overriding the default within firefox :(

 

Try this:







 

This adds support for the protocol at the Gnome level, rather than the firefox level.

ok fixed it by doing this

 

(as root)







 

in the screenshot below the black box is actually video from bbc news's website, for some reason taking a screenshot of it doesnt show the 'video'

 

but it works now so thanks all

 

cheers

anyweb

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Quote:Well, I don't know how to add it to mplayer-plugin but it's easy enough to setup firefox to magically open mplayer when it sees that protocol.<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]Open about:config

[*]In the filter field type network.protocol-handler

[*]Right click and select New > String if you don't see network.protocol-handler.app.mms. Once you have the entry setup the path to be the full path to mplayer (something like /usr/bin/mplayer).

[*]Right click and select New > Boolean if you don't see network.protocol-handler.external.mms. Set that entry to be true.

[*]Restart firefox.

[*]Type in the stream URL into the address bar, firefox will indicate that you are opening an external program, check the box and click on launch.

</ol>That's it, now when encountered firefox will open mplayer for all the mms:// protocols. You can use a similar method to have firefox open lots of different applications for various different protocols (say mailto: opening your preferred mail client, etc).

 

Hello,

This setup doesn't work for me...

Click on the icon of a video file

-> Open: x.wmv from www.y.com

File of type: video Microsoft ASF

Open with: Totem (default)... no other choice

 

TIa for any further suggestion

DanBE

Linux/Mandriva 2006/KDE/Firefox

Quote:This setup doesn't work for me...

 

Well see the protocol handler's are for streaming data therefore it expects something like: mms://some/url/here/file.wmv

 

Most likely you have a: [/url]http://some/url/here/file.wmv

 

So what I will suggest you try installing the mplayer plugin for firefox (and removing totem!).

 

to add the mplayer plugin see this post (scroll down to point 4.) [url=<___base_url___>/index.php?showtopic=2533][/url][url=<___base_url___>/index.php?showtopic=2533]https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2533