On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Sergey Manucharian <ingeniware@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and > protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like > KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an > article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to use > mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo, but it simply does not work (at least in my > case). > > For those who are interested to read further the details are below. > > When I click a link pointing to mms:// stream chromium pops up a > message that it's going to use xdg-open to handle it. The > xdg-utils-mimeo allows to associate a protocol with an application, > which I already has done - set to mplayer. Instead it tries to open > smplayer with no (or bad) link passed. I've uninstalled smplayer and it > tried to use realplayer, I've uninstalled realplayer and now it uses > vlc. I couldn't find where that sequence is hardcoded. But now I see > that the link itself is getting transformed in something weird: > > ----------------------------8<---------------------------- > File reading failed: > VLC could not open the file > "/etc/X11/mms:/ > 76.191.112.53/streams_e/stb1_s_8b700762e4ba88f62c33ce2291e1baaa.wmv". > Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL > 'file:///etc/X11/mms%3A/ > 76.191.112.53/streams_e/stb1_s_8b700762e4ba88f62c33ce2291e1baaa.wmv'. > ----------------------------8<---------------------------- > > The strange path "/etc/X11" comes is the directory I've accidentally > started X from... > > Any ideas? > > TIA > > Sergey > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium > I too am interested in seeing a better solution for this. I frequent torrent sites that feature magnet links. Chromium doesn't seem to know what a magnet link is for... so I'll keep watching this for updates then.
