TV load question.- number 2

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 11:02 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there?
> > ----
> > do you have mplayer installed?
> > 
> > on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo)
> > 
> > # 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
> > 
> > Craig
> 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.
----
/etc/mime.types is not the place

Firefox -> Edit Menu -> Preferences -> Downloads -> see bottom of
window 

Best to wait until window opens to ask you how to handle a specific file
type and then choose the application to add it

Craig


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