Totem Movieplayer opens at wrong time

[roy547]

Binary package hint: totem

When downloading an mp3 from a podcast, clicking open on the Downloads box launches Totem movieplayer which in turn says it hasn't the right plug-in to play the file. No where that I've checked is Totem selected as the preferred player. There is a conflict that needs to be found as Rhythmbox freezes up. Is there any routine I can run to sniff this out?
RT

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 14 17:25:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-xine 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem file:///tmp/136_SASP.mp3
ProcCwd: /home/roy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux roy-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What mimetype is listed in the properties dialog? What else player do you expect to be used instead?

[roy547 (roy-storyspieler)]

Sebastian,
In the prop dia the type is mp3. Under preferred applications/multimedia
I've selected Audacity. Rhythmbox is very buggy. Sometimes Rhythmbox
launches when an mp3 is downloaded but most of the time Totem launches.
Most of Rhythmboxes podcast features never work.

I've discovered one thing. If I download a file that is actually at the
site I've selected, Audacity opens. If I download a file that isn't at
the site but is actually a link provided to another site, then Totem is
likely to launch.

I hope that helps. Somehow the hand-off blows something up.
RT
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 07:45 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. What mimetype is listed in the properties
> dialog? What else player do you expect to be used instead?
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems to be a firefox issue

[semon (simon-renard)]

it is doing the same for me. Everytime i try to launch a downloaded mp3 in firefox it open with totem. And i set the mime type to Amarok.

In deluge torrent, when i try to open a video file it opens with totem (i checked the mime type and it's set to smplayer).

it's a bit anoying.

i'm using hardy.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This mainly happens when only one player is found to play the type of file. Can you please open firefox type about:plugins in the webaddresss bar and than click o file and print to file than please attach the file it printed to.
also please go into prefferneces and than on the content tab please look for the type of file and make it use what you want to use. This wont get fixed for firefox-2.0 due to it not being a SUR and its very close to EOS for ff2. can you please file a new bug if you find the same issue arises in firefox-3.0
Closing bug report.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:29:57PM -0000, semon wrote:
> it is doing the same for me. Everytime i try to launch a downloaded mp3
> in firefox it open with totem. And i set the mime type to Amarok.
>
> In deluge torrent, when i try to open a video file it opens with totem
> (i checked the mime type and it's set to smplayer).
>
> it's a bit anoying.
>

If you don't want the totem player to kick in you can disable the
plugin in tools -> addons or remove the totem-mozilla package
completely from your system

 - Alexander

[Pasi Kärkkäinen (pasik)]

I'm seeing this bug with hardy heron.

I'm trying to open .ram files with firefox 3 b5 and totem starts _always_, no matter what I do.

I went to edit -> preferences -> applications -> RealAudio Document and changed it to "Always ask".

Now firefox asks what to do when I click .ram file on web page. I select "open with" -> other -> "/opt/real/RealPlayer/realplay" and guess what.. totem starts up!

realplayer works fine from cmdline, using the same (downloaded) .ram file.

Clicking .ram file from the desktop (in gnome) opens up realplayer..

What's causing this in firefox? Why does it always run totem? Where to change it?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen (pasik)]

Uh oh.. now it works. Although I can't understand why..

I chose "open with" -> "other" -> "/usr/bin/realplay", and then it works..

"/usr/bin/realplay" is a symlink to "/opt/real/RealPlayer/realplay" so I cannot understand what's the difference..