[CALUG] Podcast player plug-in for Firefox 1.5?

Sun Feb 19 17:22:03 CST 2006

Perhaps the web-page designer likes javascript? 
I'll leave the soapbox stuff to someone else about no-value-added
scripts like this. 

In the meantime, wget the file you mention, then within it, look for
a URL referenced as:
    <param name="qtsrc" value="http://yada.yada.com/some/file.mp3">

that is the file you want. Get it and play. 
Perhaps a perl hacker can put together a quicky script to do all this?

bob o. 

here's an example of the wrapper file java script should run:
<title>Podcast.net Player</title>
<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF><font face=arial,helvetica><font size=2>
<center><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%
height=100%>
<tr><td rowspan=2 valign=top><center><img
src="http://www.podcast.net/img/page/headpod.gif" align=left
height=100></td><td><center><font face=arial,helvetica><b><font size=3
color=#738A92>FOB Radio Podcasting</font></b><br><font size=2>February
16th, 2006 Festival of Blood Radio<br><font size=1>(Feb 16,
2006)</td></tr><tr><td valign=bottom align=center><object
classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="16"
width="240">
<param name="src" value="http://www.podcast.net/img/stub.mov">
<param name="qtsrc"
value="http://www.festivalofblood.com/shows/021606.mp3">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param target="quicktimeplayer">
<param name="controller" value="true"><embed height="16" width="240"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
src="http://www.podcast.net/img/stub.mov"
qtsrc="http://www.festivalofblood.com/shows/021606.mp3"
type="video/quicktime" controller="true"
autoplay="true"></object></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2
align=right></td></tr><tr><td valign=bottom colspan=2><img
src="http://www.podcast.net/img/page/headname.gif" width=150><img
src="http://www.podcast.net/img/page/headnamebar.gif" height=29
width=185></td></tr><tr><td valign=top colspan=2 bgcolor=#497D90><img
src="http://www.podcast.net/img/page/headtaglt.gif"
width=150></td></tr></table>

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 19:18 +0100, Browne at t-online.de wrote:
> But you'll notice there is a little green icon
> labeled "play" (sort of like a preview of the podcast.)  If you mouse
> over it, you see "javascript:player
> ('http://www.podcast.net/play/17589/7')"
> If you click on it, it says I need a plugin (if I pursue that, I
> believe the
> plugin it says I need is Quicktime.)
> 
> My question is - how and why is this different than ordinary audio,
> where you can associate a plugin or extermal application with a mime
> type or a file suffix?  When I get these podcasts (via the BashPodder
> method), they are simple MP3 files.  Why do they use this 
> "javascript:player"
> approach, and can't I just force it to simply play the MP3 the way it 
> normally
> does (launching RealPlayer)?  AFAIK, Quicktime is not available for
> Linux, anyway I don't see why that association is made for me, and how
> I can break it.
> 

[CALUG] Podcast *player* plug-in for Firefox 1.5?

[CALUG] Podcast player plug-in for Firefox 1.5?