I am simply trying to figure out how to get Firefox to use the standalone version of Mplayer when playing a video file instead of the plugin. Under preferences, I select MPEG (or whichever file I’m trying to direct it on) and pull down the options for applications to use and it has Totem and the browswer plugin. So I select “use other” and navigate to usr>share>applications>Mplayer but when I select it and that window closes, the selection in the pulldown menu doesn’t actually change and Firefox still uses the plugin for MPEG movies.
Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?
Btw, when I navigate to that location and open that file, it does open the standalone player. but should I maybe point firefox to somewhere else?
The Media Connectivity Plugin works pretty well, only thing is I can’t get it to activate when I click on a MPEG or WMV… I can right click on the page and have it display a list of all the movies on the page and play them from there, and the MC plugin doesn’t show on the list of preferences in the “Applications” action pulldown menu… but it’s good enough for now. Thx!
Btw, I tried telling FF to ask me every time and that didn’t work… It never bothered asking me, go figure. thx for your help though!