Michael Sullivan schreef: > 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... > Ummm... it seems to me you've always used a helper application... after all, Mozilla is a *web browser*-- all it can do on its own is read web pages. It can't play midi files, or movies, or anything, without a helper application with that functionality being made available to it. It's just that most of the time the operation of that helper app is invisible to the user (but not always; consider for example the Acrobat Reader plugin, which is by no means an invisible helper app, nor is the RealPlayer plugin, which often opens RP in its own ugly window to play the file in question).
The issue, as I see it, is that whatever backend is used to play midi on your computer is either non-existant, non-functional, or disconnected from Mozilla. I suspect what Mark was suggesting was that you try to play the MIDI file in a media player (the "default application" for MIDI files) and see if you could hear it-- if so, then we'd know that the system is capable of playing Midi files, just Mozilla doesn't know how. That's a different problem than what would be indicated by not being able to hear the file in XMMS (with correct plugin), or KMid, or whatever, at all-- then there's something wrong with your whole MIDI backend. Do you have playmidi installed (eix or emerge -S playmidi)? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
