[mythtv-users] Mythweb streaming link problem

[Chris Petersen]

Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> Now that I get the correct link, I have a usage question with firefox. I 
> can manually "copy link" from firefox and paste it into one of 
> xine/vlc/mplayer to view the stream. However, if I just click on it, 
> even if firefox knows the application that goes with video/mpeg it wants 
> to download the entire mpeg file before invoking the player. Is there a 
> way to get firefox just to pass the link to the player?

Not that I know of, unless you want to configure it as a plugin.   I'm
eventually going to add a "stream download" option that grabs an asx
file or something similar, which would do this.  However, it means
figuring out how to get around authentication issues, which I wasn't
quite ready to do yet.

-Chris

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