On Sat, 03 May 2008 06:07:34 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:

> I'm trying to set the SeaMonkey default application for this url:
>
> http://media.libsyn.com/media/linuxr...reality099.ogg
>
> It is a podcast by Chess Griffin that gives a good plug for Slackware
> and Slackbuilds.
>
> I played the podcast OK like this:
>
> xine -V xshm
> http://media.libsyn.com/media/linuxr...reality099.ogg
>
> but clicking on the link I found at
>
> http://www.linuxreality.com/
>
> didn't work well. Actually, this raises a bunch of questions, not just
> the one I asked above. But let's stick to just the one question for
> now.
>
> I'm using Seamonkey. Clicking on the link didn't work well. It opened
> the target using xine which is OK, but it did so with poor (scrambled)
> video. I think it (xine) was trying to put some artistic mood-pictures
> of its own making with the words.
>
> It is annoying when things don't work right, so I tried to find where
> SeaMonkey invokes xine. That's where I got really annoyed. I went to
> SeaMonkey's "Edit; Preferences...; Navigator; Helper Applications", but
> nowhere in that window is xine invoked.
>
> There was one entry for "application/ogg". It was set to invoke
> /usr/bin/ogg123 for extension ogg. I removed this application from the
> list, but still xine opened. That makes sense, since it wasn't set to
> /invoke xine anyway.
>
> Another entry was for "audio/mpeg". It was set to "open using the
> default application". There the steam started to come out of my ears
> wtf is the "default application"?
>
> OK I would rtfm, but a few minutes looking could not produce any
> documentation. Neither in the distribution or on on-line at
> www.mozilla.org. I also tried the mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup,
> but sadly my newsserver doesn't support it (or so it says to me).
>
> I also spent some time googling for
>
> +seamonkey +"default application"
>
> Thus, I've been reduced to asking for your help.
>
> -Joe
>
> P.S. OK, you might have noticed that I used "-V xshm" above. I edited
> my ~/.xine/config to change "#video.driver:auto" to "video.driver:xshm".
> Now I an invoke the url from the command line without "-V xshm", but
> still it gives scrambled video when I click on the link in SeaMonkey.
> What gives? Why isn't ogg123 invoked? Oops, I said I would stick to
> just the first question. Anyway, you might be helped so see what
> motivated my question.

I got that problem solved by using mplayer and the mplayer-plugin for
mozilla/firefox. Xine is a total waste of time and effort compared to
Mplayer. Let the flame wars start.