Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin
for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library
and timidity. I can go to the test page
(http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the
"click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
of my ~/.mime.types:
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/midi \
desc="UMP plugin version 1.10" \
exts="mid,midi"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/x-midi \
desc="audio/x-midi" \
exts="mid,midi"
I did check on another web site
(http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
there.
My sound system works well enough to play CDs. I have KDE running, and the
KDE desktop mixer appears to work. I have "playmidi-2.4-8mdk" installed,
and it sucessfully plays the midi file from Netscape's cache (except that
it doesn't sound like led zeppelin even to my rock-avoiding ears :-):
ccurley@charlesc $ find . -iname "*.mid" -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 45820 Sep 15 07:41
./cache/05/cache39C226E516325E8.mid
-rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 4316 Sep 13 06:35
./cache/19/cache39BF74996340313.mid
-rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 51620 Sep 15 07:50
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
ccurley@charlesc $ file ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 17 tracks
ccurley@charlesc $ playmidi ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
ccurley@charlesc $ pwd
/home/ccurley/.netscape
ccurley@charlesc $
Thank you
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