Re: MMS protocol

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On Friday 25 November 2005 18:33, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:03:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 25 November 2005 10:55, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>>On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:37:34 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:47, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>>>>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:43:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>>>> I need to see certain video for my studies. When I try to view
>>>>>> them from the university's website, I am greeted with the error
>>>>>> (translated): "MMS is not a registered protocol"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I resolve this? I am on Firefox 1.0.7 with the mplayer
>>>>>> plugin. I am open to using different browsers and/or plgins if
>>>>>> neccassary. I have closely followed all the threads concerning
>>>>>> mplayer in firefox for the past few months in anticipation of the
>>>>>> need for this. However, none of them mention this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dotan Cohen
>>>>>> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/biography/425/red_hot_chili_peppers.
>>>>>>ph p Red Hot Chili Peppers Song Lyrics and Biography
>>>>>
>>>>>You may have tried this, but if you haven't...
>>>>>
>>>>>In firefox go to
>>>>>
>>>>>about:config
>>>>>
>>>>>then define (right click) 2 new types:
>>>>>
>>>>>network.protocol-handler.app.mms user set string mplayer
>>>>>network.protocol-handler.external.mms user set boolean true
>>>>
>>>> Unforch, when copy/pasting the above, the format gets out of step
>>>> with the data boxes, and there is no delete function.  How do we
>>>> fix that?
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>You don't cut-and-paste. Right-click -> New string, value, etc.
>>>For the other, new boolean, true, etc.
>>
>> Yes, so I found out.  But the question was: how do I get rid of the
>> bogus entries since there isn't a delete function?  The copy/paste
>> put it all in the name string.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>> Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>
>Sorry, now I see what you mean. I do find it silly that there is no
>delete button.

So do I, unreal.

>Close the browser, then
>
>cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/????.default/
>
>(use whatever you have instead of the ???). If you defined a preference
>which you don't want, say bogus.preference, you will have a line
>
>user_pref("bogus.preference",  ... etc.
>
>in prefs.js. Delete that. Again, the browser must be not running when
> you do that.
>
>Then read the comments to the beginning of prefs.js, with a pointer to
> how to set up preferences:
>
>http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
>
>Apparently, we can/should have a user.js file with (extra?)
> preferences.

Thanks, and yes, sounds like a great idea.
-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.


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