[Discuss] Launching mplayer from firefox?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Note that I've found several discussion of running mplayer on the web
server, but I'm looking to run it on the client, not the server.

Obviously this will only work from a Linux client, on the same LAN as the
web server, that has autofs enabled, and it's fine if it only works with
firefox and not with other web browsers. I'm only going to be running it
from one particular desktop machine, and it doesn't need to work anywhere
else.



On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:52 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've recently started ripping my DVD collection onto a WD MyBook Live
> network hard drive, and I threw together a simple php page to display the
> contents of each folder.
>
> The web server that displays the files is on my CentOS web server, which
> access the video archives over NFS with a path like
> "/net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv".
>
> A google search yielded some gnome settings that got firefox on my desktop
> machine to launch mplayer to play the videos when I click on the link, but
> it first downloads the entire video to a temp file and then launches
> mplayer to play the temp file.
>
> Is there any way I could set this up to skip the download and instead
> launch mplayer so it will play from the
> "/net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv" path directly? If not
> at the gnome level, then perhaps from php?
>
>
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