On Sat, 03 May 2008 12:11:05 +0000, GuestUser wrote:

> 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.

I'll have to agree. XINE/gxine drives me nuts as it "kinda works, sometimes for some things" but
mplayer has never let me down - either on Slackware or SLAMD64. Besides, the UI for xine sucks and
gxine isn't any better.