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how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - anyweb - 2006-12-16
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
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - znx - 2006-12-17
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).
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - jsn06 - 2006-12-17
Or , if you want Multimedia Player (MPlayer) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox yum -y install mplayerplug-in
johnny06
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - anyweb - 2006-12-17
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
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - znx - 2006-12-17
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.
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - anyweb - 2006-12-17
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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how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - znx - 2006-12-17
Hrmm, well I guess that Gnome is somehow overriding the default within firefox :(
Try this:
Code:
$ gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mms/command "/usr/bin/mplayer %s"This adds support for the protocol at the Gnome level, rather than the firefox level.
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - anyweb - 2006-12-17
ok fixed it by doing this
(as root)
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# yum -y remove totem
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package totem.i386 0:2.16.3-1.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
--> Processing Dependency: libtotem-plparser.so.1 for package: totem-mozplugin
--> Processing Dependency: libtotem-plparser.so.1 for package: rhythmbox
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package rhythmbox.i386 0:0.9.5-7.fc6 set to be erased
---> Package totem-mozplugin.i386 0:2.16.3-1.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
totem i386 2.16.3-1.fc6 installed 4.9 M
Removing for dependencies:
rhythmbox i386 0.9.5-7.fc6 installed 6.4 M
totem-mozplugin i386 2.16.3-1.fc6 installed 275 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 3 Package(s)
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Removing : totem ######################### [1/3]
Removing : rhythmbox ######################### [2/3]
Removing : totem-mozplugin ######################### [3/3]
Removed: totem.i386 0:2.16.3-1.fc6
Dependency Removed: rhythmbox.i386 0:0.9.5-7.fc6 totem-mozplugin.i386 0:2.16.3-1.fc6
Complete!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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how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - DanBE - 2007-01-10
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
how do i get firefox to play videos via mplayer plugin - znx - 2007-01-10
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