firefox mms support via mplayer

orschiro · 2010-04-23 18:47:24

Hello guys,

I'd like to open all mms related links in firefox with mplayer.

Therefore I added the following entries within about:config

network.protocol-handler.app.mms;/usr/bin/mplayer
network.protocol-handler.external.mms;true
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mms;false

Normally this should be enough but in my case it isn't working. Any suggestions I could try out?

Best regards

orschiro

orschiro · 2010-04-23 20:09:54

Obviously one need to install some bunch of gnome dependencies. It's explained here and here.

So the old method with the config entries doesn't work anymore but I can't believe that there's only the way with gnome tools. As I don't use gnome I would prefer a cleaner method.

Any ideas?

Last edited by orschiro (2010-04-23 20:10:20)

orschiro · 2010-05-01 06:40:40

Any further ideas?

berbae · 2010-05-01 09:35:26

I can watch mms stream videos with :

gecko-mediaplayer wich depends on gnome-mplayer and dbus-glib
gnome-mplayer which depends on mplayer, dbus-glib, libnotify and libgpod.

Despite its name gnome-mplayer doesn't depends on gnome.

orschiro · 2010-05-01 19:27:27

Hello berbae,

this opens the stream directly in firefox?

A gui is not necessary for my usage. I simply want to redirect the mms-link to mplayer and watch it within a new window.

regards

Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-01 19:28:05)

nsa.wijayanto · 2010-05-01 20:04:11

You can try to disable player embedding in it's configuration dialog.

openess · 2010-05-12 12:31:45

I had the same problem as you and fixed it using the firefox-3.5 specific fix from <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Firefox_3.5_specific__.28works_without_installed_Gnome_libraries.29">here (mozillazine)</a>

The first time I opened a new mms link it asked me what to do, I told it to use mplayer every time and it does

I'm using firefox-3.6.3, I guess it's not that 3.5 specific.

orschiro · 2010-05-12 13:23:36

Hello openess,

you're great. That's excactly what I was looking for and it's working flawlessly.

Regards

Arch Linux

#1 2010-04-23 18:47:24

firefox mms support via mplayer

#2 2010-04-23 20:09:54

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#3 2010-05-01 06:40:40

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#4 2010-05-01 09:35:26

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#5 2010-05-01 19:27:27

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#6 2010-05-01 20:04:11

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#7 2010-05-12 12:31:45

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

#8 2010-05-12 13:23:36

Re: firefox mms support via mplayer

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