Igor, There are two aspects here : one is playing MIDI files with gnome- mplayer, the other is playing MIDI files in browser. I believe you agree these are not the same question.
> 1. it takes many hours of programming May be, I don't known, but I still trust you 2. it is an old format with no worth meaning (crappy sound) > Old does not implies not meaningful! HTTP is old, HTML is old, SGML is old, C > is even more older than any of the formers including MIDI. MIDI is still a > widely used standard. Weither it is old or not is not meaningful here, and I > believe, was just raised as an excuse to carry justify #1 ( “ it would take > long, I don't want to take long, I need an excuse for that ” , someone one > probably says in is mind) 2. (crappy sound) > Silly, this is not due to MIDI, but to MIDI support, that is, due to either > the sound card, the installed sound fonts, the system virtual synthesizer, > and so on. Who infers such a conclusion such as Old => Crappy sound ? > Probably someone which really does not know anything at all about MIDI (I > would suggest him/here to learn about it) Actually, MIDI files played in > Totem, does not sound crappy at all (the same on Windows and Mac OSX, where > MIDI is even more popular). > 3. mplayer stands for 'movie player', and not 'media player' Agree :) And here comes the matter I introduced above : the question applied to maplyer is not the same as that question applied to FireFox. So this seems indeed gnome-mplayer should not register any more as a plug-in able to play MIDI files. If a clear decision was made in this direction, this would raise the need for something else, which would be good enough. This could at least help to go towards Totem for that purpose. gnome-mplayer is indeed not intended to play MIDI files, but browsers still need to be able to play MIDI files *online*. Think of it : MIDI files are far more widely used on the web than ContentEditable features, as an example. By the way, FireFox onb Windows, as well as Opera, Safari, and even Internet Explorer since its very first release, are all able to play MIDI files. The same apply to Mac OSX. Its really a pity to not be able to play MIDI files in a browser when one use Ubuntu. What about that idea to officially assert that gnome-mplayer should not be registered anymore as a MIDI player for browsers, and then enforce the need to go to something else for that purpose ? Seems reasonable enough ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231421 Title: mplayer plugin for firefox can't play midi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/231421/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
