VLC with FIREFOX

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 8 15:00:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:55 +0200, David Hláčik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for such a lame question.
> 
> But i am not able to make VLC works with Firefox. When i will open
> page, where embed media player should open and play stream (wmv) totem
> is in new window opened instead.
> 
> I want to have VLC embed in firefox. So far i have downloaded
> 'mozilla-vlc' package from livna repo - so i have plugin installed,
> but it still opens totem. I look through mozilla add-ons and disabled
> Totem Web Browser plugin. But then ,simple nothing is opened neither
> totem neither VLC.
> 
> Any solution which will ends to opening media player even totem
> embedded in web page is enough.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> David
Look at about:config and click on the option:
browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions to mwake it false.
Ignore the warning.
Now you can go to: Edit->Preferences->Applications
Look at the list of file types and handlers. Change to taste.

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