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I am using K-MeleonCCF 0.05.6.4 and I am having difficulty streaming media with my player. I have XMPlay 3.3.05, which I have preconfigured to work with Windows Media and RealAudio streams, but my browser informs me that I need the Windows Media Player plugin or RealAudio plugin in order to access the streams. Is there any way to get around this, or is it the fault of the server itself for demanding that I use these players? And yes, XMPlay is already associated with the respective file types used by these formats, but the sites I try to stream from don't link you directly to the file itself. i.e., Amazon.com's audio samples.
Edit > Edit MIME Types
Change for the types you want to use XMplay, default system by Open with and choose xmplay
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Thanks a ton. I'm still pretty new to K-Meleon, so I'm not all that familiar with the features.
However, this still does not work for Amazon.com. I get a pop-up telling me to install Windows Media Player. With RealAudio, it asks me to download something called "hurl.exe."
I had the same problem but Guenter posted a trick consisting on introducing a new key on the registry which solved it definitively.
I think that Dorian should take a look to see if this registry key could be implemented on future K-Meleon releases, it would be a very good improvement.
You can check for this trick on older posts, if you can't find it I can search for it (I have keeped it on a file on a CD with other programs).
I found the thread you suggested, but the instructions haven't remedied my problem. From what I understand, this registry change only allows embedded media objects to be loaded. Even so, I don't want to load them with Windows Media Player -- I want to load them with XMPlay.
What bothers me is that, while I've manually associated XMPlay with all the respective file types commonly used these sites, they won't allow me to load any external applications in order to render them. I can't even manually save the media file because the sites give me a referer, and not a direct download link.
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Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
Grendel
Date: October 11, 2006 03:41AM
I am using K-MeleonCCF 0.05.6.4 and I am having difficulty streaming media with my player. I have XMPlay 3.3.05, which I have preconfigured to work with Windows Media and RealAudio streams, but my browser informs me that I need the Windows Media Player plugin or RealAudio plugin in order to access the streams. Is there any way to get around this, or is it the fault of the server itself for demanding that I use these players? And yes, XMPlay is already associated with the respective file types used by these formats, but the sites I try to stream from don't link you directly to the file itself. i.e., Amazon.com's audio samples.
Re: Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
alain aupeix chez wanadoo fr
Date: October 11, 2006 05:13AM
Edit > Edit MIME Types
Change for the types you want to use XMplay, default system by Open with and choose xmplay
A+
Re: Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
Grendel
Date: October 11, 2006 06:16AM
Thanks a ton. I'm still pretty new to K-Meleon, so I'm not all that familiar with the features.
Re: Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
Grendel
Date: October 11, 2006 06:22AM
However, this still does not work for Amazon.com. I get a pop-up telling me to install Windows Media Player. With RealAudio, it asks me to download something called "hurl.exe."
Re: Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
Enaitz Jar
Date: October 11, 2006 01:53PM
I had the same problem but Guenter posted a trick consisting on introducing a new key on the registry which solved it definitively.
I think that Dorian should take a look to see if this registry key could be implemented on future K-Meleon releases, it would be a very good improvement.
You can check for this trick on older posts, if you can't find it I can search for it (I have keeped it on a file on a CD with other programs).
Re: Streaming media files without plugins
Posted by:
Grendel
Date: October 11, 2006 03:39PM
I found the thread you suggested, but the instructions haven't remedied my problem. From what I understand, this registry change only allows embedded media objects to be loaded. Even so, I don't want to load them with Windows Media Player -- I want to load them with XMPlay.
What bothers me is that, while I've manually associated XMPlay with all the respective file types commonly used these sites, they won't allow me to load any external applications in order to render them. I can't even manually save the media file because the sites give me a referer, and not a direct download link.
