On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:45 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:57:42 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > > > > timidity outputs to the normal PCM device, because it is a software > > > wavetable player. > > > > But how do you configure the browser (Firefox) to play midi files > > embbeded in web pages? Is there a timidity plugin or something like > > that? > > "yum install mozplugger" is the generic MIME types plugin for Firefox > these days. It defaults to playing embedded audio/midi files via timidity. > > > Also, how do you play midi embbeded in other applications documents, > > like open office presentations? > > That depends on where they look for assignments of MIME types to > applications/plugins. Firefox, for example, receives the MIME type from > the remote web server and passes on the type and file extension to > plugins, which register for that type/ext on startup. How other > applications do it may be different. Desktop applications can register > themselves in the desktop database for MIME types. > > > In summary, is there a easy way to make > > the whole system "midi aware"? >From either Gnome or KDE, can't he set files with the extension of .mid to use timidity?? That would set it pretty much the default for the desktop. Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
