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Playing Ogg Vorbis streams

Rob Gibson

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 9:44AM

Hi,

Clicking the Ogg Vorbis streams on the Radio Paradise site (http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=Listen) opens a download dialogue box but not my media player. All the other links open my player fine. My browser's settings look ok and are pointing to the system default player. I'm stuck.

Browser: Opera Media player: VLC OS: Vista

Help!

Rob.

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Woolwell

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 2:46PM

It seems to be an Opera snag. I got the same problem as you with Opera but it works with Firefox.

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octal

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 7:25PM

I have just tried it and it didn't work in Opera to start with, what I had to do was to go to Settings>Preferences and associate the OGG stream to open VLC, it works fine now.

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Rob Gibson

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 8:51PM

Hi octal,

How did you do that exactly? I've pointed both audio/ogg and application/ogg at VLC but still get the download dialogue. Can't see a streaming MIME for ogg. Am I missing something?

Rob.

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octal

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 9:19PM

Here is a screen shot of how mine is set up, it is the Linux version of Opera, but the setup should be the same.

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octal

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 9:21PM

Just one thing, have you ticked the box to pass the web address directly to the application?

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Woolwell

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Posted June 21, 2011 at 9:46PM

I finally got it working with Opera. You have to tick the box hide file types opened with Opera to find application/ogg. You can then click on edit and choose which program to open with by browsing and octal's point about ticking the box about the web address is important.

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Rob Gibson

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Posted June 22, 2011 at 8:20AM

Thanks guys.

I now have it working.

One thing different with mine was that it didn't have the ogg extension in the file extension window, just ogx.

Again, thanks both.

Rob.

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