[vorbis] Ogg-Friendly Browser configuration

[Ralph Giles]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:12 AM, Glendon M. Gross wrote:

> If anyone has written documentation re: how to configure Netscape 4.x 
> to play
> .ogg files, I would be
> thankful to see a link.  These days, the browser is becoming the 
> standard way to
> play many types of content,
> and I would like to configure my browser "correctly" for this task 
> [i.e. in an
> "ogg-friendly" way.]

To add a bit to what Nathan said, I recall this working. I think the 
trick is to use '%s' as an argument. That is, open the preferences, 
select, 'helper applications' and add instructions to open 
application/ogg and application/x-ogg files with 'xmms %s' or 'ogg123 
%s'. You'll have to make an entry for each mime-type. On launch the %s 
gets replaced with the path to the downloaded file. There may be a way 
to pass the url instead for streaming if you have a fast connection, 
I'm not sure.

If the server isn't setting the proper mime-type, there's not much you 
can do but save it and run the player manually after the download 
completes.

Hope that helps,
  -r

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