Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 22:43:22 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape audio set up question Message-ID: <32FAA4DA.167EB0E7@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <199701290326.WAA21510@netcom10.netcom.com> <32EFFA3F.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <19970206064915.XS64696@ct.picker.com>
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Randall Hopper wrote: > > Jim Durham: > | > |Something I *never* got to work was "background". Some web pages > |have background midi sound tracks using background=somefile.mid > If you're referring to embedded content ala: > > <EMBED SRC="av/wav/startrek/hail.wav" Width=2 Height=2 Autostart=True > > <BGSOUND SRC="av/wav/startrek/hail.wav" Width=2 Height=2 Autostart=true > > Yup, that's the kind of thing.. > I haven't been able to get FreeBSD's Netscape to do these at all, while the > Linux version under FreeBSD will do it just fine. > Hmmmm... do you notice any disadvantage to running the Linux version? Any bugs or problems? Any slower? > I grabbed some source for Netscape plug-ins that just system()s the command > of your choice, built Linux .so's to handle the MIDI, AU, WAV, AIFF, > etc. mime types, and installed in ~/.netscape/plugins. It works well > enough with the Linux version, but dain bramaged Netscape seems to want to > ignore plug-ins if there's an entry in the user or global mailcap file for > that content type (even though it won't use these mailcap mappings for > embedded content). This of course prevents other MIME-aware programs > (Lynx, Mutt, ELM/Metamail, etc.) from getting these mappings, which I > wasn't willing to sacrifice. > > No clue why Netscape didn't include plug-in support for *BSD Netscape. > It'd be nice to have, but until they fix the .mailcap conflict, I'll just > leave it disabled. > Did you file a bug report? -Jim Durham
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