TV load question.- number 2

[oldman]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>>Someone decided to have TV channels delivered to people on campus
>>>through the internet to be viewed on computer screens.
>>>In Windows this seems to be pretty automatic. The web site opens and
>>>loads plugins for the mp4 and mp2 TV signals.
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>>>Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there?
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>>do you have mplayer installed?
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>>on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo)
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>># rpm -qa|grep mplayer
>>mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at
>>mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at
>>mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at
>>mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at
>>mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf
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>>Craig
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>Ok, lets ask another question. How do you tell firefox to accept mp2 and
>mp4 extensions as video/mpeg filesr? I have never figured out how to
>change the plugin information in firefox. I changed this isn
>/etc/mime.types but that does not do any good.
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That is what the mplayerplug-in is for. When Firefox sees the mp2 or 4 
or wmv or whatever mplayerplug-in will call mplayer to play it for you.

Scott