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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:35:50 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mozilla: "mms is not registered protocol" ?
Message-ID:  <20040330083550.GB68464@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <40690D9A.50607@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:03:06PM +0900, Rob wrote:
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> Hi,
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> The multimedia internet radio sites, usually link to something like
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>       mms://211.233.92.44/L_1FM
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> but when I click on such a link I get an Alert dialog, that says:
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>   "mms is not a registered protocol"
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> How can I teach mozilla to open mplayer with this site, instead
> of popping up this Alert dialog.
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> Manually, in an xterminal, I can type:
>   mplayer mms://211.233.92.44/L_1FM
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> which works fine, but why does mozilla not know about this.

Take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D202715 --
you should be able to persuade Mozilla to open Microsoft Media
Streaming URLs via mplayer by editing the prefs.js file under
~/.mozilla There's also:

    http://linux.sgms-centre.com/howto/mozilla.php

which you can trawl for clues.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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