Re: mozilla and mplayer

[Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:18 -0500, Mike Burger wrote:

> This will work for Mozilla in pretty much any version of Red Hat/Fedora:
> 
> In Mozilla, go to Edit/Preferences.
> 
> In the preferences window, go to the Navigator section, and down to Helper 
> Applications.
> 
> In the Helper Applications area, click "New"
> 
> For MIME Type, input "video/mpeg"
> 
> For Extension, input "mpg mpeg mpe"
> 
> In the "When a file of this type is encountered" box, select "Open it 
> with:" and type /usr/bin/mplayer in the box. Select "OK" and you should be 
> on your way.

Note that this won't work for embedded media (using <embed> or
<object>).

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That's quite a (long) signature there...