On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 14:01, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> 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:
>
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I found what you found, I did find this at the end of the file:
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</RDF:Description>
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:video/mp4"
NC:prettyName="vlc"
NC:path="/usr/bin/vlc" />
</RDF:RDF>
(END)
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It looks like it is trying to tell the system to use vlc, but I do not
even get that
option.
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