[hardy] firefox does not open objects of type application/x-vlc-plugin with VLC

[Alex Wauck]

My college offers an IPTV service based on VLC. It's worked well for me in the past, but now in Hardy, Firefox insists on using Totem to open the streams. I guess The Real WTF here is that the VLC-based streaming system is producing streams that Totem (or anything that's not VLC, really) can't read, but I would like objects defined as application/x-vlc-plugin to be viewed with the VLC plugin. According to about:plugins, the VLC plugin does handle that type, and the Totem plugin does not.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:44:28AM -0000, Alex Wauck wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> My college offers an IPTV service based on VLC. It's worked well for me
> in the past, but now in Hardy, Firefox insists on using Totem to open
> the streams. I guess The Real WTF here is that the VLC-based streaming
> system is producing streams that Totem (or anything that's not VLC,
> really) can't read, but I would like objects defined as application/x
> -vlc-plugin to be viewed with the VLC plugin. According to
> about:plugins, the VLC plugin does handle that type, and the Totem
> plugin does not.
>

Please attach your .pluginreg.dat file to this bug. to find it, type

  find $HOME/.mozilla/firefox -name pluginreg.dat

in a terminal.

 status incomplete

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[Alex Wauck (awauck)]

It works now. No idea why. I'm on amd64 now rather than i386, for what it's worth.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:23:23AM -0000, Alex Wauck wrote:
> It works now. No idea why. I'm on amd64 now rather than i386, for what
> it's worth.
>

ok, thanks for the update

 status invalid

 - Alexander