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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:54 AM

Hello,

When I use firefox to request an URI of the form:
mms://211.215.17.148/press/jangae-move-st/remember2004.wmv
firefox dutifully fires up totem.

The totem application comes up, the displays the follow error in
dialog:

Totem could not play
'mms://211.215.17.148/press/jangae-move-st/remember2004.wmv'
No URI handler implemented for "mms".

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I can give the same URI to mplayer from a command line:
> gmplayer mms://211.215.17.148/press/jangae-move-st/remember2004.wmv
and everything works fine.

The mplayer plugin also seems to be working in firefox. Requested
files of the appropriate extensions play through the mplayer plugin.
It looks like the "mms" request is not making it that far.

Is there a way to force firefox to use mplayer instead of totem for
"mms" URIs? Does this have to do with mime-types? When I uninstall
totem and rebuild firefox, the requested URI seems to do nothing at
all. What is going on?

I have been fighting this problem for days with no luck. I am using
KDE as a desktop, but keep gnome installed for a few useful utilities.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Randall

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:54 AM

I switched to testing with a local .wmv file, as the mms stuff is just
one more variable.

I emerge gxine with the following use flags:

USE="X alsa apache2 arts berkdb cairo cdr dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss
encode esd fam firefox gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal java jpeg kde
ldap mad mailwrapper mikmod mp3 mpeg nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss png
postgres qt3 qt4 quicktime samba sdl snmp spell ssl truetype unicode
urandom vda vorbis win32codecs xine xml xv"

The win32 codecs are in /usr/lib/win32. gxine still gives the no
demuxer error... Mplayer seems to work fine, but I cannot get the
firefox to mplayer connection to work with mms.

R

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:54 AM

A fix:
mv /usr/bin/totem /usr/bin/totem.old
ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/totem

Randall

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