hugerobot Posted January 18, 2003 Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 When I click on a link to a Windows Media Video file (*.wmv) in Mozilla, it tries to open the file like a webpage and puts garbage in the browser window. How do I change this? In Preferences/Helper Applications, I added a new association to mplayer, but I dont know if it's correct. Here is how I set it up: Description: Windows Media Video File Extension: wmv Mime Type: video/x-ms-wmv Application to use: mplayer There is also a Reset button at the bottom of that dialog that says it will clear my file opening preferences and ask me before opening files. I clicked that too. Needless to say, it didn't work. These wmv files open fine if I save them and then run mplayer manually, but why can't I get this to work properly in mozilla? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 18, 2003 Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 It may be that the current version of mozilla does not recognize that mime type. What I would do is try the Windows version of Mozilla (or get someone else who has both programs) to try it there. Also, if there is no final three letter mime type in the Mozilla list why do you need three extra characters in front of it. Is this Gill Bates revenge on Mozilla? Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted January 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 I have the windows version of mozilla on my laptop.. It doesn't work in windows either. You know what tho.. wmv's do the same thing in Opera. I did the same thing using opera's preferences... and it still behaves the same way. This is really strange. Anyone know how to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 18, 2003 Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 At the risk of a terrible heresy, does this work in IE6, Fishbait's idea of Windows exclusivity. (Bill Gates = Gill Baits - well you get the idea) Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted January 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2003 Actually, yes it does... in fact it also works in Opera on Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglafata Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 I "had" it working on my system until I hosed it and had to re-install (deleting my install of MPLayer). Now, I'm waiting until my system stablizes (lots of other issues). Anyhoo, here's a couple things one might forget about (one stupid and one not): Have you tried putting a period in front of WMV for the extension in your file association to see if that matters? Also, did you install the Win32 Codecs and the WMV Codecs before compiling MPlayer, so that MPlayer recognized that you had them and compiled them into the program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted January 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 Yes and Yes. FYI-If I run mplayer at the command line with the URL as the argument, it loads the movie and plays fine. (WMV, AVI, MPG... still no Quicktime Sorensen format) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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