You were probably using mozplugger to play all this files, its a plugin that can handle most mplayer file types with mozilla firefox, you can emerge it (or redo it) (emerge mozplugger).
Then if all goes right you'll be able to play mid, wav, mpg, avi and all at mozilla. If you're not willing to play it on the browser anymore simply go to a console and type 'mplayer <file>.mid' and you'll probably have it played. If I'm not mistaken XMMS can play it too. On 7/5/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:38:28PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:51 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > > Try playing a midi locally. > > > > > > On 7/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I can't seem to get my mozilla to play MIDI files embedded in web pages. > > > > I don't understand why. Before my reinstall (about a week ago) mozilla > > > > knew how to play .mid files. Now it doesn't. I have a sound card with > > > > hardware MIDI support and support for it is compiled into the kernel I'm > > > > running, but every time I go to a site that I know has background music > > > > the sound card is silent. WAV files play just fine. Any hints? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > - Mark Shields > > > > > > > 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 Why didn't the first dialog show the > > filename correctly instead of all those funky #n things? > > > > IIRC, Mozilla doesn't handle midi files. Most likely you had a helper > application that does before your reinstall and you just forgot about > it (= > > Personally I use timidity with mozplugger > (emerge -S mozplugger timidity) > > But that's because I do some music arranging on the side and a good > patchfile for timidity allows me to here the music better. > "emerge -S midi" should give you a list of programs in portage that > can handle midi. > > Best, > > W > > > -- > On MagnetoDynamics: > The classic way the textbooks do it is to sweep the problem under the rug > and hope no one notices it. Since the course is going so fast... I guess > that's what we'll do then. > ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 20:38 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
