From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 02:27:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17E616A41A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:27:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A439F13C44B for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:27:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 2814 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2007 21:27:14 -0500 Received: from 124-170-139-87.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.139.87) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 14 Oct 2007 21:27:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:27:09 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20071015122709.5a24a853@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20071014222655.GA46269@thought.org> References: <20071014222655.GA46269@thought.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Why Standalone?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:27:15 -0000 On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:26:55 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > Can any of you explain why (with firefox) whenever I click to > listen to a stream, the website cannot tell that I have > realplayer (or mplayer) installed? And why it sometimes > [hopefully] asks if I want to use a "Standalone" player? hi Gary, Firefox uses the mime type returned by the server to determine the content type, and how to handle it. When you install a plugin or an extension, they usually update firefox's configuration to tell it how to handle the media type it (the plugin / extension) is designed to handle. eg, from about:plugins : DivX Browser Plug-In File name: mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in 3.45 Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled video/divx DivX Media Format divx Yes video/vnd.divx DivX Media Format divx Yes When a server sends something marked with a mime type of video/divx, the mplayerplug-in-dvx.so is used. If you are browsing to a new media type that hasn't been handled before, firefox will usually ask you what to do with it (open with... ,save to disk..,etc). These options are sometimes saved. to change them, Edit, Preferences, Content, File types. Many music streams are notorious for not sending correct media type... if it doesnt work, i just copy the url into VLC or XMMS or mplayer and use it from there... that *always* works. B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Time exists so everything doesn't happen at once" Albert Einstein I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.