Re: Sirius radio streaming?
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On 03/15/07 15:39, charlie derr wrote:
> <snippage>
>
>>> I'm thinking now that
>>> the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does
>>> that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop)
>>>
>>> ~c
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even have totem.
>
> I don't "only" use KDE, I have a lot of other stuff installed (I almost
> never login directly to gnome, but sometimes I'll use openbox instead of
> KDE (especially when my main purpose is to run vmware to get at a
> virtual machine)). So I'm not at all surprised that totem is there (it
> works well for a surprising number of things, but not quite everything
> it thinks it ought to work for).
>
>
>> Yes,
>> KDE holds file associations in the control center, but Iceweasel handles
>> them too. You need to tell Iceweasel how to handle the file. Edit ->
>> Preferences, Content tab, Manage button.
>
> I don't know if there's a bug here or not, but I can't figure out how to
> actually add a new file association with that interface (modify and
> delete seem to be the only options available). Probably there's some
If you figure out how, tell us!!!
> preferences file (xml?) somewhere that could be edited directly in my
> .mozilla/firefox directory to fix this. But it does seem that there
> ought to be a GUI option for adding a new file association. In poking
> around, I see a pluginreg.dat file that looks like it's probably the
> ticket, but at the top there's a warning not to edit it, as it's a
> generated file. Anyone got any clues on this?
>
>>
>> If you have mplayer, you can dump totem because mplayer can play
>> anything that totem can. You might want to look into kaffeine as well.
>> That is a popular media player for KDE, as well as kmplayer, which is a
>> kde front-end to mplayer.
>
> Yeah, I installed kmplayer, but konqueror won't even get the
> www.sirius.com homepage to load properly (perhaps because of flash?).
Works for me in Iceweasel with Flash 9 installed
>
>>
>> Oh, the choices...how does one know which app is best for each task?
>> Recommendations from others (including myself) are only so good. The
>> best method is to try for yourself and pick your favorite.
>
> Yeah, thanks very much for the suggestions. I'm still a little baffled
> about how much of a grip totem seems to have on my media files. In the
> KDE control center I've modified the file associations so that mplayer
> is at the top of the list of applications for opening .asx files, and
> yet iceweasel still continues to try to use totem.
Iceweasel/FF has it's own mime control.
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