[F8]: Getting MIDI player to work: HOW?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:57:42 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

> > timidity outputs to the normal PCM device, because it is a software
> > wavetable player.
> 
> But how do you configure the browser (Firefox) to play midi files 
> embbeded in web pages? Is there a timidity plugin or something like 
> that?

"yum install mozplugger" is the generic MIME types plugin for Firefox
these days. It defaults to playing embedded audio/midi files via timidity.

> Also, how do you play midi embbeded in other applications documents, 
> like open office presentations?

That depends on where they look for assignments of MIME types to
applications/plugins. Firefox, for example, receives the MIME type from
the remote web server and passes on the type and file extension to
plugins, which register for that type/ext on startup. How other
applications do it may be different. Desktop applications can register
themselves in the desktop database for MIME types.

> In summary, is there a easy way to make 
> the whole system "midi aware"?

That question is too generic.