[opensuse] Setting links to Apps
Hi, I am writing to ask how to set up some links in Firefox to start Mplayer when I click on a link to an audio stream. They used to be set when setting up multimedia with the opensuse-community one click using mplayerplugin. But something has happened in the intervening time and now the mplayerplugin is no longer linked to start in firefox when I click on a hyperlink. I have been copying the url of the stream and pasting it in mplayer, but I decided that I should get the helper application working again to automatically start mplayer when I click on a link. But my attempts aren't working, so I need some help. I am using the following procedure to set a preference for mms protocol in firefox, but it isn't working. 1.Enter about:config in the address bar. 2. Right click and select New>Boolean 3. Enter "network.protocol-hanler.external.mms" without the quotes, then click ok. 4. Select "true" for the value, click ok. 5. Right click again, select New>string 6. Enter "network.protocol-handler.app.mms" click ok. 7. Find "network.protocol-handler.app.mms" in the list and right click on it. 8. Select New>String 9. In the box type: "usr/bin/mplayer I think that the problem is that the string for starting mplayer is wrong. When I go to /usr/bin/mplayer in konqueror and click on the executable file icon (gear) in /usr/bin/mplayer to start mplayer, nothing happens. I can't find another executable file to start mplayer, so I am not sure how to procede. I am using Opensuse 11.1 and kde 3.5. Thanks for your help in advance, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mark Misulich said the following on 04/26/2010 09:47 AM:
Hi, I am writing to ask how to set up some links in Firefox to start Mplayer when I click on a link to an audio stream.
Have you set "edit -> preferences -> applications" ? I don't know what you are feeding mplayer, but I've set it up for .wav files and it downloads the file then fires up KMplayer. I prefer to use the embedded xine player for .wav files, though. It seems to get the sound started a lot faster. -- "What ever you're doing, it's a bad idea." http://www.dailywav.com/0110/itsaBadIdea.wav -- Ray Romano (Manny) from Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 10:07 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Mark Misulich said the following on 04/26/2010 09:47 AM:
Hi, I am writing to ask how to set up some links in Firefox to start Mplayer when I click on a link to an audio stream.
Have you set "edit -> preferences -> applications" ?
I don't know what you are feeding mplayer, but I've set it up for .wav files and it downloads the file then fires up KMplayer.
I prefer to use the embedded xine player for .wav files, though. It seems to get the sound started a lot faster.
Hi, thanks for the info. I set the preferences like you wrote, and that allows mplayer to start when I click on the hyperlink to the audio stream. I had used that method I described in my first post in the past on opensuse 10.1-10.3 to get things working, but haven't used it since I started to use one-click to get the multimedia working. I think that maybe the reason that it didn't work is that the string should be /usr/bin/gmplayer instead of /usr/bin/mplayer. I tried clicking on the gmplayer gear icon when I opened /usr/bin/ in konqueror, and that started mplayer. I opened about:config in Firefox again, and since I set "edit>preferences>applications", my previous preferences that I set are gone from about:config. I'll play with this more this evening when I have some free time to figure out what happened. But for now your advice works, so thanks! Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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