On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 11:02 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Someone decided to have TV channels delivered to people on campus > > > through the internet to be viewed on computer screens. > > > In Windows this seems to be pretty automatic. The web site opens and > > > loads plugins for the mp4 and mp2 TV signals. > > > > > > Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there? > > ---- > > do you have mplayer installed? > > > > on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo) > > > > # rpm -qa|grep mplayer > > mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at > > mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at > > mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at > > mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at > > mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf > > > > Craig > Ok, lets ask another question. How do you tell firefox to accept mp2 and > mp4 extensions as video/mpeg filesr? I have never figured out how to > change the plugin information in firefox. I changed this isn > /etc/mime.types but that does not do any good. ---- /etc/mime.types is not the place Firefox -> Edit Menu -> Preferences -> Downloads -> see bottom of window Best to wait until window opens to ask you how to handle a specific file type and then choose the application to add it Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
