why Totem?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:03 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:03 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 09:57 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > Where and how is Totem being invoked, and why?  Normally, clicking on
> > > a .wmv file in Firefox opens the mplayerplug-in window and after a
> > > time, the file plays - why occasionally does this alternative behavior
> > > get invoked?
> 
> > You may find that the sites that work right are sending the proper MIME
> > type, and your system is palming the data off to the preferred
> > application to handle it.  And, with the sites that don't, you'll end up
> > downloading the data for you to handle, yourself.
> 
> That would be better if that happened, but it hands off to Helix
> instead. I don't want to allow Helix, so I just may as well rpm -e the
> #^#@#$% and be rid of it so that mplayer can do the job. Like Claude, I
> have mplayer configured everywhere that helix lived and is supposed to
> be started first. I may have to remove all other apps as potential
> candidates... just mplayer alone. Ric
> 
If you go to: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_notes.html
on page 28 you will find the location of a mplayerplug-in will prevent
mplayer from coflicting with RealPlayer. Also remove the
HelixPlayer.                               
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>