[Mplayerplug-in-devel] Is there a general method to invoke mplayer for swf files?

[Hume V. <Hu...@zo...>]

Mplayer vastly outperforms Adobe Flash 9 in low-powered systems such as
those based on one of the Geode processors. There are Greasemonkey scripts
(i.e. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12084) that replace the swf file
type with the quicktime file type in the stripped out flash data provided by
YouTube. This script invokes the mplayer plugin instead of Adobe Flash
Player to stream YouTube media.

Is there a similar method available for the general case of swf files or any
other video files at other websites? In other words, we would like to invoke
mplayer as the plugin for any video we encounter on the web, for example at
cnn.com, abc.com, etc. 

If this is not possible, can anyone comment on whether this is theoretically
possible, or whether there is a known impediment to making this work?

Thanks,

Hume


Hume Vance
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Zoom Technologies, Inc.
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