Changing mime-types

[Roger Grosswiler]

> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 12:46 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:48 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>> >> Hey friends of the list :-)
>> >>
>> >> i would like to hear streaming music on my computer. so, i added
>> >> mp3-support to gstreamer. BUT: somehow, my webbrowser tries to play
>> the
>> >> sound with the mplayer-plugin.
>> >>
>> >> Has this something to do with the mime-types? how can i tell mplayer
>> not
>> >> to play mp3's in the browser?
>> >
>> > I don't know the reason, but mplayer tries to hog all my multimedia
>> duties
>> > if
>> > I install an mplayerplug-in newer than 2,80, or perhaps 2.85 (on fc4).
>> > It seems to
>> > be true when running other linux distros as well. Try installing your
>> > plugin from Livna,
>> > They usually have the older plugin.       --gary
>> >
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>> in fact, i have the plugin from livna...
>
> Then I guess you're running fc5, that plugin is 3.21. You can get an
> earlier plug-in from
> mplayerplug-in. I also assume you're running Firefox. Later
> mplayerplug-ins would always
> ignore mime-types in Firefox. ( for me at least ) .  I never tried using
> Mozilla - maybe the
> preferences will stick - using Mozilla,    --gary
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you guess right, you should play some lottery :-) so, i think this is a
bug and we should file this in bugzilla?

good idea, i will call the streaming-url with another browser than firefox
- i am sure, this will work. if not, then my mp3-plugin is not good
installed...

Thx,
Roger