[mythtv-users] file extension of recorded programs / mplayer firefox plugin?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/05/2006 07:53 AM, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> about:plugins shows that mplayer does handle that mime type:
>
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> video/mpeg 	MPEG 	mpg,mpeg 	Yes
>
> hmmm
>   

Perhaps FF is trying to download the entire recording and then pass off 
the downloaded content (temp file) to MPlayer.  I think that's what most 
browsers tend to do since the helper app may not have HTTP support nor 
access to the site (if it requires authentication/cookies/whatever).

Mike