Mozilla Helper Apps

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I did <G>.  It should be as mplayer plays the url properly when given

	mplayer http:/blah.blah...

What is not documented is how Mozilla runs the program as in what it passes to it or how it starts it.  However, in a Win2K registry MS does this with their player

	mplayer2 /Play "%L"


On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:20:06 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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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