Mozilla Helper Apps

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

> Does anyone have an experience with Mozilla (1.2.1) helper apps?  I am trying to set gmplayer up to play MS asx files when one is selected.  I have a site I'm using as a test that plays music when I click on an icon.  They recommend MS media player but I want to use gmplayer <G>.  I set up the Mozilla helper app as
>
> Name: MS asf format
> helper app: gmplayer
> mime type: video/x-ms-asf
>
> Gmplayer opens, then tells me it can't play the format and the player display shows [00] channel2-10 [00:00:00] scrolling through.  It appears that gmplayer did not get the URL given to it which is
>
> http://www.sermonaudio.com/channel2.asx
>
> I've never tried this before and my be way wrong in what I'm trying to do but somehow I should be able to have Mozilla play stuff without using MS!

You might want to ask on the MPlayer users mailing list.  I'm not entirely
sure that what you're trying to do is possible.

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