choosing external applications [video]

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4 total messages Started by abcollier Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:18

#163

Author: abcollier
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:18

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hello,

am having trouble getting mpeg files, which are linked into a pdf document using the latex movie15 package, to run. when i hit the movie link acroread pops up a dialog saying:

"The file attachment "movie.mpg" may contain programs, macros, or viruses... Would you like to:"

followed by three options, the first of which is "Open this file". i select this option then there is a flurry of activity on the terminal from which i started acroread. lots of stuff about kbuildsycoca... then after a couple of seconds a konqueror window pops up. i can play the movie in konqueror fine. but to me this is complete overkill! i want to simply run mplayer to display the mpeg video.

does anyone have any idea how i can change when application is spawned when i open the link?

thanks a lot!

best regards,
andrew.

Re: choosing external applications [video]

#164

Author: Salil_Kapoor
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:06

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We basically hand over the attachment files to Nautilus to decipher their type and open them in the appropriate application which is registered to handle that MIME type. In your scenario, either no handler application is set or Konqueror is set to handle MPG files, hence it is opening in Konqueror. However if you want it to open in any other player, you need to configure that in the systems MIME type handler list.

Re: choosing external applications [video]

#166

Author: abcollier
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:50

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hello,

thanks for your response, salil.

yes, i guessed that it was something like this... i originally had nautilus installed on my system. i don't use it and, since it was the first thing that acroread started, i just uninstalled it. then acroread started launching konqueror.

do you have any idea how to change the mapping for various mime types? i have tried to read through the gnome documentation (guessing that acroread is using some sort of gnome system for this) but could not find anything appropriate.

a little bit puzzled about why you should choose to use nautilus to launch other applications. this seems like a rather "heavyweight" approach to handling mime types. if i am not mistaken, acroread used to use the listings given in .mailcap to choose what external programs to use. in my opinion this is a little more transparent and allows the user immediate choice over what programs handle what types of files. is there any way that i can restore this behaviour? or is that just wishful thinking? :-)

cheers,
andrew.

Re: choosing external applications [video]

#165

Author: abcollier
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:59

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gather that i have to edit either a .desktop or a .xml file somewhere...?

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