[Gllug] Firefox/Gnome media player

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 09:43 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> Perhaps a stupid question. I use Fedora Core 6, Gnome desktop and 
> Firefox 1.5.0.10  Every time I click on some Realaudio or video stream 
> from the BBC, using their webpage embedded player it launches Totem 
> (which obviously doesn't work).
> The 'listen using standalone realplayer' option works fine (ie launches 
> realplayer!) but this option is not there for the 'listen again' links.
> 
> Good ideas on setting this please? It is not as simple as it sounds - on 
> suggestion I Googled for said to remove all libtotem* files in the 
> plugins directory. Surely setting a media helper application like that 
> is easy in Gnome? And no, editing some obscure XML file is not "easy".

FWIW: I have/had similar problems with Ubuntu. It's a real PIA and I
think I've fixed it, but it's very phase of the moon like. Any update of
the video technologies on the distro is likely to break it/fix the last
break.

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