Windows Media players

[Claude Jones]

Douglas Furlong wrote:
I don't want to offer comparisons to Redmond, but, in this
>>area, they do offer a dialogue asking whether I want to play media files 
>>from within Internet Explorer, or play them in their own window - I'm 
>>wondering if there is such a similar setting that can be invoked from 
>>within Mozilla?
> 
> By the sounds of it, you do not really want an embedded movie player
> (I.E. a mozilla plugin). May I suggest removing the plugin (by RPM if
> that's how you installed it, if not follow my tips above), and then,
> when you click on the link it will ask you what you want to do with the
> file (in most cases), and you can tell it you wish to open it in an
> application of your choice.
> 
> Or save it to disk, and open it separately.
> 
> 
> 

Saving to disk is not really an option, as I'm checking files that are 3 
hours in length, and saving is not necessary for what I need to do, 
which is fast verification that files are present, and playable (this is 
related to my work). I hadn't really thought about the difference 
between plugin and play-in-own-window -- now that you mention it, it's 
obvious. At one point, I did get to that option in this process, but I 
couldn't figure out how to specify mplayer or kplayer, or Kaffeine, or 
whatever. Typing the program name in the dialogue gave me an 
unrecognized program response, and when I tried to browse to the 
program, I couldn't figure out where to find the programs. Thanks for 
your patience in this matter.


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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA