335199 - Add support for the M3U file format using the QuickTime plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Nat Harward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I have manually added the following line to my 'pluginreg.dat' file to get Firefox to use the QuickTime plugin to play M3U files, it seems like it should just be part of the distribution:

60:audio/x-mpegurl:MP3 Playlist:m3u:$

If this has already happened and during one of my upgrades this file was not updated I apologize; in that case perhaps the fact that it didn't should be entered as a bug :)

I will attach the relevent section of 'pluginreg.dat' that is currently on my machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A -- this is a suggestion/enhancement with a fix included
Actual Results:  
Works like a charm for me

Comment 1

[Nat Harward]

Attachment: Modified pluginreg.dat (QuickTime section only)

Modifications:
  * Changed line 6 to '61' from the existing value of '60'
  * Added the last line

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is not a setting firefox controls, but is set by quicktime.
System preferences -> Quicktime -> advanced -> mime settings -> mp3 -> check off mp3 playlist.

Comment 3

[Nat Harward]

Wow, that was fast.  Thanks for the help and quick response.

Comment 4

[Daniel]

Hello.

I also have problems with the .m3u filetypes. These are mp3 playlists file 
types that should be supported by firefox by default.

Here is the exact problem description:

If I have an object tag on an HTML page which uses a .m3u filetype, then firefox will not display it at all, and will ask for 'an additionnal plugin is needed'. When clicking on the message, even no plugin is suggested and you have to install it manually.

m3u filetypes are very common on the internet, because they allow to stream MP3 files without having a server.

A complete discussion has taken place on the web about that problem here:
http://groups.google.ch/group/mozilla.support.firefox/browse_thread/thread/8ea1a4b9c2bc0565/1880cfa313e31f80#1880cfa313e31f80

I used Firefox 1.5.0.6 on a windows XP machine.
I tried the latest version and latest nightly build of firefox, and the problem is still there.
However, interestingly enough, I tried the Mozilla (non-firefox) latest version and it did handle properly this 'audio/x-mpegurl' MIME type for that .m3u extension files, and windows media player did open up and played the file properly.

You said that this was up to QuickTime to register this MIME type, but I don't think so, because QuickTime will only do that if Firefox was installed already before. If you take the case of someone who did install the media player (QT or another one) before firefox, then I believe that this problem will happen to him, which is the case of most people.

Regards,
Daniel