I've got Firefox 1.5.0.7 running under Mepis, and I'm having trouble listening to streaming audio from various sources (Australia Radio National, BBC, some others). Back in Windoz days, I used mplayer with good results, so I want to use mplayer now. But Firefox wants to use kaffeine.

Using Edit/Preferences/Downloads/View & Edit Actions I can tell Firefox to use mplayer for specific file types, but this menu doesn't offer the option of adding types not listed, and these types get grabbed by kaffeine.

I saw post 2499565 which appeared to offer a fix to the menu problem by changing the filepicker, but this didn't work for me. I can't find any reference to kaffeine in Firefox configuration files, but perhaps I'm not looking properly.

My next step will be to remove kaffeine, but I'm a bit hesitant to do this, it might break something else.

Suggestions?

Firefox uses system defaults unless otherwise instructed. It isn't obvious how to instruct Firefox to use mplayer.

You need the mplayerplugin-in for Firefox: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer

Once it's installed and the mplayer.so file copied to .firefox plugins folder, mplayer will be the default for Firefox.

Thanks for your suggestion which however doesn't seem to address the problem.

I have the mozilla mplayer plugin, which (it appears from the link you provide) is the same thing as the mplayer firefox plugin.

I have a folder /user/lib/firefox/plugins and a folder /user/lib/mozilla/plugins. Each folder has a copy of mplayer.so, as well as mplayerplug-in.xpt (actually the copy in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins is just a link) which the web site says should be in the "mozilla components" folder. I copied mplayerplug-in.xpt from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/firefox/components.

This didn't change anything. Still can't get firefox to use anything other than kaffeine. btw, I have the same problem with Konqueror as with Firefox.

NO need to remove kaffeine, check that you aren't using the kaffeine plugin.

mplayerplug-in, totem-plugin and the kaffeine-plugin do not play nice only use one of them, for best results I suggest the mplayerplug-in

Open Firefox and look in about:plugins

Installed Plugins: (10)
- Adobe Reader 7.0
- DivX Browser Plug-In
- Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
- Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0-b105
- MozPlugger 1.7.3 handles QuickTime Windows Media Player Plugin
- mplayerplug-in 3.31
- QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7
- RealPlayer 9
- Shockwave Flash
- Windows Media Player Plugin

Make sure there is nothing that referrers to kaffeine.

Thanks, craigevil, I hadn't ever encountered "aboutlugins" before.
[and I have no idea why the colon-p turns into a tounguey icon above]

Kaffeine was there, so I uninstalled it (via Synaptic). Now things are, well, different. I am going to have to spend some more time to try to figure this out.

In aboutlugins, VLC, Quicktime, Realplayer, and Windows Media Player all say "mplayerplug-in" above their respective lists of mime types. (Mplayer of course also says this.) Whereas previously Firefox forced to Kaffeine and I got poor or no reception, now I am honestly not sure what plugin is running but it seems able to receive OK two of the three stations I've been using as a test. Progress!

So I am in a better situation now than before your suggestion, and I have some places to look to try to figure this out.