On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I want it to open them with vlc, I have gone into every part of the browser to
> try to get it to open the mp4 rather that download it. There is not even a
> option to try to open it.
>
> Any idea where to poke? I have looked at:
> edit/preferences/applications
> It show mpeg4 video >>> use quicktime video
> I can not even add a entry for mp4 files there
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a way to add a file type using that dialog.
Somehow I got an entry for mp4 (actually two of them, one that says "use
mplayer" and one that says "always ask"... hmm...) so I looked at the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/<random-looking-string>/mimeTypes.rdf and found these
entries mentioning video/mp4:
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:video/mp4"
NC:path="/usr/bin/mplayer"
NC:prettyName="mplayer" />
########################
<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mimetypes:root">
...
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:video/mp4"/>
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:audio/mp4"/>
...
</RDF:Seq>
##########################
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:video/mp4"
NC:useSystemDefault="false"
NC:handleInternal="false"
NC:alwaysAsk="true"
NC:saveToDisk="true">
<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:video/mp4"/>
########################
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:video/mp4"
NC:fileExtensions="mp4"
NC:description=""
NC:value="video/mp4"
NC:editable="true">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:video/mp4"/>
</RDF:Description>
I don't know which of these are vital. There also are different protocols
for ending tags mixed willy-nilly, to wit:
<RDF:tag>
...
</RDF:tag>
<RDF:tag>
...
<NC:desc RDF:type="data"/>
and
<RDF:tag>
...
<NC:desc/>
Maybe that's from FF being updated while keeping user data.
Anyhow, I don't know how to do this, but maybe this can be of some
assistance.
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