[mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

Mike Angstadt daenris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 15:22:26 EST 2005


http://download.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.pdf

There's a section dealing with the mms protocol, which is like what I
mentioned before. You should be able to use Videolan to stream to either the
videolan client, or windows media player over the mms protocol.

On 11/18/05, Mike Angstadt <daenris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure there is a way to send the URL to another app. Some applications
> already automatically grab certain URLs (like torrent:// or I think
> edonkey:// can do this). I'm not sure how to do this, and it's likely
> something that has to be integrated with the other software.
>
> Though of a brief search it looks like VideoLan is supposed to be packaged
> with a plugin for Firefox, which would allow you to view the file right in
> the browser.
>
> -Mike
>
> On 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Cheyne wrote:
> >
> > > Brad,
> > >
> > > The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem
> > > is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and
> > > have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's
> > > not really a MythTV issue.
> > >
> > > It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the
> > > mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that
> > > anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from the
> >
> > > .NUV file everytime.
> >
> > Even if you fix your MIME types (Tools|Options (for Windows) or
> > Edit|Preferences (for *nix), then click Downloads, then change the
> > action for nuv files in the File Types area), won't your browser
> > (Firefox or IE or ...) download the file first, then start the
> > associated application? So, after downloading 2GB, your wife can watch
> > her show.
> >
> > If there's a way to have FF (or whatever) automatically pass the URL to
> > another app, please let me know.
> >
> > Mike
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