On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:39:07AM +0000, Henrique Lengler wrote: > Hi, > > I have a video player (mplayer) installed on my computer with a lot of > codecs, so it is able to play a lot of videos formats. > I don't like the idea of installing some plugins like gstreamer to play > vide on on the browser if have a video player already working. > > This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do > it well. Write programs to WORK TOGETHER. > > So I just thought, is there a way to combine both, my web browser that will > care only about display the html stuff, and leave the video work to my > video player? This would be awesome. >
There is a firefox plugin called mozplugger that does pretty much that. It'll select a program to display external content with based on its own config file, termcap, xdg-mime and alternatives[1], then launch that program and embed its window into firefox. [1] See, that's what happens when there is no standard. mozplugger has now 4 different ways of selecting an application, so if the choice it takes is the wrong one, good luck in figuring out how to change it. > > Regards, Ciao, Markus
