On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:38:28PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:51 -0400, Mark Shields wrote:
> > Try playing a midi locally.
> >
> > On 7/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I can't seem to get my mozilla to play MIDI files embedded in web pages.
> > > I don't understand why. Before my reinstall (about a week ago) mozilla
> > > knew how to play .mid files. Now it doesn't. I have a sound card with
> > > hardware MIDI support and support for it is compiled into the kernel I'm
> > > running, but every time I go to a site that I know has background music
> > > the sound card is silent. WAV files play just fine. Any hints?
> > >
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> > - Mark Shields
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>
> I saved the .mid file to my hard drive and tried to open it with
> mozilla. It gave me a dialog with this information:
>
> The file "#3" is of type "#2" (#1) and #4 does not know how to handle
> this file
> type. This file is located at:
>
> What should Mozilla do with this file?
>
> Open it with the default application
> Open it with
> Save it to disk
>
> I don't think this is normal. When I select the default application
> option I get a message that says "/home/michael/FF6opera.mid could not
> be opened, because the associated helper
> application does not exist. Change the association in your
> preferences.
>
> The trouble is that I've never used a helper application to play .mid
> files - I've always used mozilla Why didn't the first dialog show the
> filename correctly instead of all those funky #n things?
>
IIRC, Mozilla doesn't handle midi files. Most likely you had a helper
application that does before your reinstall and you just forgot about
it (=
Personally I use timidity with mozplugger
(emerge -S mozplugger timidity)
But that's because I do some music arranging on the side and a good
patchfile for timidity allows me to here the music better.
"emerge -S midi" should give you a list of programs in portage that
can handle midi.
Best,
W
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The classic way the textbooks do it is to sweep the problem under the rug
and hope no one notices it. Since the course is going so fast... I guess
that's what we'll do then.
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