[Vorbis] "Live-CD" with Firefox + XiphQT?

Michael Lampard mila61 at gmx.de
Sat Sep 16 23:39:14 PDT 2006


> > This "start-*-Firefox" script start-up Firefox and a HTML file with
> embedded OGG Vorbis files both of which will also reside on the CD-ROM. Because
> VideoLAN does not yet come with a Firefox-plugin that supports intel Macs,
> my choice became XiphQT.
> 
> The problem with this is that while vlc is a stand-alone browser plugin, 

That's a bit OT but: Does the VLC plugin not depend on an installed VLC Player?

> XiphQT uses the system quicktime.

Yes, I know that.

> There's probably some nasty way to 
> hack this, but really, for this to work you'd need to *install* XiphQT 
> on the system's hard disk and then use an embedded QuickTime player 
> inside your html.

I there no way to save this plugin in the Firefox-profile directory and let QuickTime search there?
This way, I just could start FF with something like <My-Firefox-Path-on-the-CD-ROM>/firefox -profile <My-Profile-Dir-on-the-CD-ROM> <HTML-file-to-be-displayed>.

> But that's not quite a live cd.
> 
> What you *can* do is the use the cortado java player, served alongside 
> the html from the cd.

Hm, but I guess that leaves me with the problem on how to get Firefox with builtin Java-support, doesn't it?

Michael
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