Comments on: Somebody fix this.

By: Ian Weller

Ian Weller — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:03:28 +0000

@Lubomir: interesting. i thought about the user agent but then i got lazy.

@Livio: I was looking for that in PackageKit but couldn’t find it… so it’s been included with GNOME MPlayer now?

@Austin: woo

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:56:17 +0000

I recently experienced similar problems with a confusing asf/wmv/mms container-inside-container situation.

By: Livio

Livio — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:26:00 +0000

From MPlayer-based plugins for web browser, there’s GNOME-MPlayer with its plugin.

And about Totem’s ASX playback and other things around – it hurts :/ .

By: Lubomir Rintel

Lubomir Rintel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:20:38 +0000

In case the above snippet doesn’t make sense — seems like WordPress omited part of it considering it a HTML tag or whatever. You can get the point there though — having the user-agent line in both of the config files.

By: Lubomir Rintel

Lubomir Rintel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:18:49 +0000

Last time I checked, with archive of one of Slovak televisions, they were checking the user agent. I’ve set this in my wife’s kickstart back then:

# Mplayer
mkdir -p /etc/skel/.mplayer
cat >/etc/skel/.mplayer/config user-agent=NSPlayer/10.0.0.1337
EOF

The reason for that was that MPlayer by default sent just “NSPlayer” (w/o version) which satisfied only some servers IIRC. I think mplayerplug-in has been obsoleted since then, but there’s another mplayer-based mozilla plugin for your firefox around that you can use as a replacement for Totem one (but maybe Totem will do too if configured — haven’t checked).