[mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba

Damon Searle djsearle at netspace.net.au
Mon May 17 05:54:29 EDT 2004


Thanks, that fixes it. I realized that it actually did it in Firefox as
well, I only noticed it because I used IE on a computer that already had
.php associated with a php editor.

- Damon Searle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Andy Lintner
> Sent: Monday, 17 May 2004 9:29 AM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba
> 
> I didn't bother to test this originally with IE, since I only use
> Firebird.
> It appears that IE ignores the MIME type and instead pays attention to the
> filename's extension. After a little bit of testing, I found you could fix
> this by throwing a line like:
> 
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=mythtv.asx");
> 
> into wmplay.php. Hope that helps!
> 
> -Andy
> 
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:16:07 +1000
> From: "Damon Searle" <djsearle at netspace.net.au>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba
> To: "'Development of mythtv'" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> 
> Thanks for this, it works nicely. The only problem is that IE6 loads the
> file as a .php instead of a .asx (Mozilla Firefox produces a .asx).
> I've never been able to get the myth:// url's to work because I'm always
> using CVS versions, so this is a good alternative.
> 
> - Damon Searle
> 
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