[Discuss] Launching mplayer from firefox?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Thanks! That did the trick.

It was indeed necessary to configure firefox's user_prefs to trust local
file content, but the settings allowed me to restrict it to trust only the
one server.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> If you've already got Firefox using the appropriate plugin or external
> application to handle the content type, you just need to change the
> generated links from HTTP protocol links to File protocol links.
>
> e.g. file:///net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv
> instead of http://example.com/
> net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv
>
> Note the triple slash.
>
> Note that you need to use proper URI syntax for local file references. It
> is not proper to enter an operating-system-specific path, such as
> c:\subdir\file.ext without converting it to a URI, which in this case would
> be file:///c:/subdir/file.ext. In general, a file path is converted to a
> URI by adding the scheme identifier file:, then three forward slashes
> (representing an empty authority or host segment), then the path with all
> backslashes converted to forward slashes.
>
> It may be necessary to configure Firefox to trust local file content.  see
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Issues_:_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don't_Work
>
> ~ Greg
>
> Greg Rundlett
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:59 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Note that I've found several discussion of running mplayer on the web
>> server, but I'm looking to run it on the client, not the server.
>>
>> Obviously this will only work from a Linux client, on the same LAN as the
>> web server, that has autofs enabled, and it's fine if it only works with
>> firefox and not with other web browsers. I'm only going to be running it
>> from one particular desktop machine, and it doesn't need to work anywhere
>> else.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:52 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I've recently started ripping my DVD collection onto a WD MyBook Live
>> > network hard drive, and I threw together a simple php page to display
>> the
>> > contents of each folder.
>> >
>> > The web server that displays the files is on my CentOS web server, which
>> > access the video archives over NFS with a path like
>> > "/net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv".
>> >
>> > A google search yielded some gnome settings that got firefox on my
>> desktop
>> > machine to launch mplayer to play the videos when I click on the link,
>> but
>> > it first downloads the entire video to a temp file and then launches
>> > mplayer to play the temp file.
>> >
>> > Is there any way I could set this up to skip the download and instead
>> > launch mplayer so it will play from the
>> > "/net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv" path directly? If
>> not
>> > at the gnome level, then perhaps from php?
>> >
>> >
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