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I have compiled and installed under Red Hat 9 the mozilla plugin provided with vlc 0.7.0.
When i connect mozilla 1.4.1 to an AVI stream using http://pc-mpeg:8080,
it displays the following message:
"application/octect-stream (bynary executable)...doesn't recognize...what do you want to do...save to file or open with..."

The vlc is running at port 8080 of pc-mpeg with the following command line
vlc -I rc --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=avi,url=pc-mpeg:8080}:#transcode{acodec=mpga,vcodec=mp4v}' ~edufour/data/toto.vob

So, do you have an idea of what causes the problem ?

Emmanuel DUFOUR.

The reason is simple, there is no way for mozilla to know what you are trying to access. you didn't specify a filename/extension and mozilla doesn't recognize vlc's mime type i guess.

Try this:vlc -I rc --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=avi,url=pc-mpeg:8080/foo.avi}:#transcode{acodec=mpga,vcodec=mp4v}' ~edufour/data/toto.vob

Then open pc-mpeg:8080/foo.avi in mozilla