mozilla: "mms is not registered protocol" ?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:03:06PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The multimedia internet radio sites, usually link to something like
> 
>       mms://211.233.92.44/L_1FM
> 
> but when I click on such a link I get an Alert dialog, that says:
> 
>   "mms is not a registered protocol"
> 
> 
> How can I teach mozilla to open mplayer with this site, instead
> of popping up this Alert dialog.
> 
> Manually, in an xterminal, I can type:
>   mplayer mms://211.233.92.44/L_1FM
> 
> which works fine, but why does mozilla not know about this.

Take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202715 --
you should be able to persuade Mozilla to open Microsoft Media
Streaming URLs via mplayer by editing the prefs.js file under
~/.mozilla There's also:

    http://linux.sgms-centre.com/howto/mozilla.php

which you can trawl for clues.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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