Charles Curley wrote: > > Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin > for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library > and timidity. I can go to the test page > (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the > "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then > Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently, > Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing. > > The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part > of my ~/.mime.types: > > #mime types added by Netscape Helper > type=audio/midi \ > desc="UMP plugin version 1.10" \ > exts="mid,midi" > #mime types added by Netscape Helper > type=audio/x-midi \ > desc="audio/x-midi" \ > exts="mid,midi" > > I did check on another web site > (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy > there. > > My sound system works well enough to play CDs. I have KDE running, and the > KDE desktop mixer appears to work. I have "playmidi-2.4-8mdk" installed, > and it sucessfully plays the midi file from Netscape's cache (except that > it doesn't sound like led zeppelin even to my rock-avoiding ears :-): > > ccurley@charlesc $ find . -iname "*.mid" -exec ls -l {} \; > -rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 45820 Sep 15 07:41 >./cache/05/cache39C226E516325E8.mid > -rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 4316 Sep 13 06:35 >./cache/19/cache39BF74996340313.mid > -rw------- 1 ccurley ccurley 51620 Sep 15 07:50 >./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid > ccurley@charlesc $ file ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid > ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 17 tracks > ccurley@charlesc $ playmidi ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid > Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details please see the file COPYING. > > ccurley@charlesc $ pwd > /home/ccurley/.netscape > ccurley@charlesc $ > > Thank you > Charles I stuffed around with that plugin for several days before giving it away - just couldn't get to do anything sensible at all. I eventualy got Plugger 3.2 from http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html This one seems to all that I require in terms of Net plugin stuff. Cheers John
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