Auto-launching VLC w/ Safari?

[Elizabot]

Apple Strudel wrote:

> Lee Phillips <lee@leeHYPHENphillips.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>

>>>How do I tell Safari and/or OSX to launch VLC when I'm in Safari and I
>>>click on a link to an avi file? Windows Media Player and RealOne Player
>>>are able to launch automatically, but not VLC.

>>
>>Have you tried associating VLC with with avi through the usual
>>"Get info" route?

>
>
> Yes, but it only works when double-clicking on a file, not from clicking
> on a Safari link. I also installed the PrefPane "More Internet' which
> lets you customize associations, but that doesn't work w/ Safari links
> to avi files either.

I run Mozilla (ie Netscrape 7.1). I tell it to download the file to my desktop.
I start VLC and open it through that app.

HTH

[sbt]

In article <3f7e4a59$0$198$75868355@news.frii.net>, Elizabot
<toolittletoolate@poo.com> wrote:

> Apple Strudel wrote:

> > Lee Phillips <lee@leeHYPHENphillips.org.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >

> >>>How do I tell Safari and/or OSX to launch VLC when I'm in Safari and I
> >>>click on a link to an avi file? Windows Media Player and RealOne Player
> >>>are able to launch automatically, but not VLC.
> >>
> >>Have you tried associating VLC with with avi through the usual
> >>"Get info" route?

> >
> >
> > Yes, but it only works when double-clicking on a file, not from clicking
> > on a Safari link. I also installed the PrefPane "More Internet' which
> > lets you customize associations, but that doesn't work w/ Safari links
> > to avi files either.

>
> I run Mozilla (ie Netscrape 7.1). I tell it to download the file to my
> desktop.
> I start VLC and open it through that app.
>

Kind of a roundabout variation. Download to a folder that has a Folder
Action (i.e. AppleScript) attached that automatically opens newly
deposited files in vlc.

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Spenser

[Wally]

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In article <1g29stk.9s0ray146ngjkN%a1fields2@notyahoo.com>,
[email]a1fields2@notyahoo.com[/email] (Apple Strudel) wrote:

> Lee Phillips <lee@leeHYPHENphillips.org.invalid> wrote:
>

>> > How do I tell Safari and/or OSX to launch VLC when I'm in Safari and I
>> > click on a link to an avi file? Windows Media Player and RealOne Player
>> > are able to launch automatically, but not VLC.

>>
>> Have you tried associating VLC with with avi through the usual
>> "Get info" route?

>
> Yes, but it only works when double-clicking on a file, not from clicking
> on a Safari link. I also installed the PrefPane "More Internet' which
> lets you customize associations, but that doesn't work w/ Safari links
> to avi files either.

How about if you,
Find a link in safari that opens Windows Media Player, then
Locate WMP in your apps folder, disable it (just stuff it and delete the
original) now click on the link again and see what sort of msg Safari gives
you, it may give you the option to assosiate VLC or at least it may give a
clue where it gets its info from, you can always unstuff WMP later!

[Tim Murray]

Perhaps the issue is MIME type: what does the server say the MIME type is,
and then how does Safari handle that type.

Internet Explorer allows you to customize what you want to do with MIME
tupes, but I don't see any way to modify how Safari handles any particular
MIME type.

[ZnU]

In article <bltrg5$6um$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>,
l <macuser@nomail.com.invalid> wrote:

> In article <041020030710073789%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.inval id>,
> sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:
>

> > Kind of a roundabout variation. Download to a folder that has a
> > Folder Action (i.e. AppleScript) attached that automatically opens
> > newly deposited files in vlc.

>
> Have Folder Actions changed so they can do that?

Yes. This happened in Jaguar. I've got a Folder Action set up to sort
various types of downloaded files into various folders.

> Because the last time I played with them (when system 9 was
> released), the only way to trigger a folder action was by dropping an
> item onto the folder. Doing "Save as..." from an app into that folder
> did not trigger the action.

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