Re: backports issue with firefox and a mms stream
On 2010-03-31, Paul Eskello <paul.eskello@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm a satisfied debian lenny user, but in some need of a more recent
> firefox/iceweasel then 3.0.6, so I decided to use the 3.5.8 version
> from the backports repo.
>
> Great, but my fav radiostream only offers a mms stream. My fresh 3.5.8
> doesn't 'interface' with mplayer. I pulled a new plugin-handler from
> backports as well, but nada. No mplayer seems available, nor could I
> find any solution online.
>
> Copying the mms streamlink manual to a terminalscreen and starting
> mplayer by hand seems the only solution. At that point, I decided to
> revert to the y'old 3.0.6, wanting not to screw up many more things
> I'm not aware of now.
>
> Is this intentional behaviour of the backport ? Am I doing something
> wrong ? Yeah I know I can fetch firefox from their site, but I want to
> stick to the repo's.
>
Have you tried setting up the file association manually? If you put an
mms:// URL in the location bar, you will be prompted to choose an
application to handle that protocol.
--
Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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