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Old 12-11-2005, 02:20 PM   #1
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Making MPlayer the default media player in firefox


How do you do this? I have already done it for Gnome. Is this a setting I can change in Firefox. I looked all around and can't figure out why it is launching Totem Player. I installed the MPlayer-mozilla plugin and figured that would force it to take over.

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Old 12-12-2005, 08:53 AM   #2
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You need a plugins for firefox to do so.
Try mplayer-plugins.sourceforge.net
 
Old 12-12-2005, 08:23 PM   #3
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As I stated above I think I already did what you suggest. I beleieve it's this.
<code>sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer</code>

How to install Multimedia Player (MPlayer) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox?

1. Read General Notes
2. Read How to add extra repositories?
3. Read How to install Multimedia Codecs?
4. Read How to install DVD playback capability?
5.

sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
sudo cp /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf_backup
sudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
 
Old 12-13-2005, 04:16 AM   #4
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Firstly, mozzilla-mplayer is not what I meant.
I mean using mplayer-plugins (go on freshmeats and find it).
Sencondly, In opera, I can decide which plugins will handle what kind of file, I choose not to let mozilla-player handle wm* file, and let mplayer-plugins open them.
I don't know how to do that in ff put I think you can figure it out.
 
Old 12-14-2005, 03:09 PM   #5
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Thanks. For firefox --> downloads --> plugins and you can uncheck the filetype.
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