[MPlayer-users] How do I set up Mozilla to use mplayer to open a file?

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Fri Mar 11 15:59:31 CET 2005


John McKee wrote:

>On this web page, there is a link that is ultimately to a wmv file.
>When I click the link, I am presented with a box asking me to download
>the application.  This is in a separate window.  The application type is
>video/x-ms-wmv
>
>I opened the preferences and attempted to add mplayer to the list of
>helpers, or at least allow Mozilla to ask what to do with this media
>type.  Then, I closed and restarted Mozilla.  That didn't change the
>response.
>
>So, my question:  how do I get Mozilla to either use mplayer for
>specific media types, such as wmv, or, at least ask how to open the
>link?
>  
>

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