QuickTime browser plugin won't release .mp3

[gluino]

Hi all,

I'm running QuickTime plugin ver 7.0.2, on WinXP, MSIE and Firefox.

The most obvious way to try to get the QT plugin to stop picking up
..mp3 links from the browser address is in:
Plugin Settings > File Types (tab)

But unchecking .mp3 seems to have no effect.

The worst thing is that after QT plugin picks up the .mp3 link, it
displays the playback control in the browser window and provides no
way* to save the mp3 to disk.

*Except the two annoying "PRO" menu items that try to sell you the PRO
version.

Anyone familiar with this problem?
TIA

 

[Heiko Recktenwald]

The most obvious way to try to get the QT plugin to stop picking up
.mp3 links from the browser address is in:
Plugin Settings > File Types (tab)

But unchecking .mp3 seems to have no effect.

There is no MIME menu in XP and Firefox.

There is no second party tool to add this functionality to
Windows 2000 and "better". Such a tool would be a great progress
for all windows users, it used to be a part of Windows 95 and 98.
I wish I had such a tool! If somebody knows how to write such a beast,
please do it! ;-)

But there are extensions to Firefox, that
add the same MIME menu to this browser, that you have in Mozilla.
There are "Things they left out" and some "MIME type manager" or
something like that, my copy is at

http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/mtypes.xpi

Just open it with Firefox and it will install itself.

Then you can associate audio/mpeg with another player, for example WMP.

But you can allways also right click on the link and save the file
from your browser, without listening to it first.

The worst thing is that after QT plugin picks up the .mp3 link, it
displays the playback control in the browser window and provides no
way* to save the mp3 to disk.

*Except the two annoying "PRO" menu items that try to sell you the PRO
version.

IMHO the PRO version is very usefull. Saving mp3s is no reason to buy
it, I am not a friend of the QT hinting of bla.mp4s, but copy and
pasting movies can be very funky if you are into video and together with
Ciscos open source MPEG4IP mp4creator it is rather perfect. IMHO it is
more usefull than Premiere or something like that, if you are
concentrating on the basic stuff and dont need the bells and whistles,
transitions and similar kitsch.

My favourite is "add scaled" ;-)

But I have a DSS and am interested in vendor and platform independent
MPEG Video streaming (rtsp://bla/bla.mp4 etc).

H.


mpegurl.blog.de

 

[Heiko Recktenwald]

But there are extensions to Firefox, that

add the same MIME menu to this browser, that you have in Mozilla.
There are "Things they left out" and some "MIME type manager" or
something like that, my copy is at

http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/mtypes.xpi

But notice: Firefox and Mozilla - and Netscape 8 - are buggy insofar as
extensions are concerned. You will not see it with Realplayer, bla.ram
or bla.m4u etc dont matter. But there are players with hardcoded
extensions, that will not understand bla.tmp or whatever in the browser
cache. VLC for example does understand MPEG Video in playlists, but
they must have the extension m3u. In Ciscos MPEG4IP mp4player the
extension m4u is hardcoded. This is what "extension" is good for
in Operas and Netscape 7s MIME types (Helpers) menu.

With Firefoxs (mtypes.xpi), Mozilla and Netscape 8 give you that
extension "on the desktop" (save as), but not in the cache, where VLC
or whatever will find them.


H.


mpegurl.blog.de

 

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

/gluino/:

The most obvious way to try to get the QT plugin to stop picking up
.mp3 links from the browser address is in:
Plugin Settings > File Types (tab)

But unchecking .mp3 seems to have no effect.

You need QuickTime Settings -> Browser -> MIME Settings... to affect
the plug-in. The "File Types" affect just Windows Explorer.

The worst thing is that after QT plugin picks up the .mp3 link, it
displays the playback control in the browser window and provides no
way* to save the mp3 to disk.

You just use the Browser's File -> Save... option. IIRC, older
versions had a "Use Browser's Cache" option which was necessary to
check for the file to be not re-downloaded, but I don't see it in
7.0.2 and I've observed it act like it is already checked.