[Fwd: Fwd: Getting older]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Sunday 17 September 2006 20:44, oldman wrote:
>> Hmm...  I have never even so much as opened Helix (maybe that's why I
>> don't have the problem?)
>
> Neither have I.
>
>> do you have mplayer and mplayerplug-in
>> installed?
>
> I have mplayer installed, but 'yum search mplayer' doesn't give me anything
> like mplayerplug-in (this is FC4).

Do you have Livna enabled in yum?  mplayer and mplayerplug-in are 
available there or from some of the other independent repos (Dag, 
FreshRPMs, RPMForge, etc.).  I think they are there for FC4 as well.

>
>> Have you tried removing the Helix player?
>
> Eventually realised that it's called HelixPlayer, and yes, it can be removed -
> Ric, are you listening?
>
>> You're on KDE
>> aren't you?  It's been ages since I looked, but I recall a very good
>> mime-type editor in KDE, does that still exist?
>>
> It does, but the embedded tab didn't allow me to do anything helpful.  I still
> don't know why the problem occurred.  HelixPlayer was not listed to be used
> at all, but it seems to grab things.  Anyway, removing HelixPlayer hasn't
> helped the original problem.  From the url that Scott gave I can play it with
> 'Music Player' whatever that may be, but I still can't play it from the url
> that Ric originally gave us.
>
> Anne
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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