Lee Revell wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 18:27 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
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>>On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:18:53 -0600
>>jjbenham@email-addr-hidden (Jeremiah Benham) wrote:
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>>>Well instead of downloading the mp3 choose open. Instead of choosing
>>>Save. You can select open with. Then pull down the drop menu and choose
>>>other. Then type in /usr/bin/xmms. More that likely if just doing open
>>>with no setting will either already use xmms or it will use mpg123. I
>>>have mplayerplugin installed. My mp3's tend to go to that. You can also
>>>edit you /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap. The firefox can be set to always
>>>perform this with this filetype and the popup dialog will no longer
>>>appear for mp3. You can then change that behavior by going into
>>>firefox's preferences.
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>>I think the problem is that with this mechanism firefox always dl's the
>>mp3 first before playing it. THe OP wants to stream and at the same time
>>save.
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>I believe the mplayer-plugin does what you want. The version I have
>still fails a lot (starts to buffer the file then just says "Stopped",
>but I can right-click, save and play with gmplayer).
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>Lee
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Thanks, Lee. the mplayer plugin works perfetly here ( so far), it plays
files and then offers me a "save as" option when it's downloaded the
whole stream. awesome.
Received on Fri Mar 10 08:15:06 2006
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