[Chromium] Open mms and asx streams

orschiro · 2011-09-17 02:35:42

I wonder how to open those two formats with Chromium.

Opening mms gives me the following message and only opens a new chromium window.

Opening asx streams ask me to save them as a file instead of directly opening with e.g. mplayer.

This is how my ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list looks like:

[Default Applications]
application/pdf=zathura.desktop
x-scheme-handler/mms=gnome-mplayer.desktop
audio/x-ms-asx=gnome-mplayer.desktop

In addition I installed mimeo and created a ~/.config/mimeo.conf:

/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer
  ^mms://

Any ideas?

Last edited by orschiro (2011-09-17 02:36:53)

the sad clown · 2011-09-17 05:27:59

Have you installed the gecko-mediaplayer? That is the browser plugin for mplayer.

orschiro · 2011-09-17 05:34:38

I tried it quickly and now asx streams are opened in Chromium. Still no success with mms links.

However I do not want to watch the streams embedded in Chromium. Hence gecko-mediaplayer is not really an option for me.

the sad clown · 2011-09-17 06:15:16

As for asx, what is your DE/WM? Setting a default application for Chromium is going to depend on that.

orschiro · 2011-09-17 08:00:24

I'm using openbox. That's why I added audio/x-ms-asx=gnome-mplayer.desktop to my defaults.list.

But the inability to handle mms streams is really weird...

the sad clown · 2011-09-17 08:39:14

Sorry, I don't know mimeo well enough to help you on that.

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