[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Added URI scheme handlers: mms, rtmp, rtsp

[Scrool]

Hi,

2011/10/11 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>        Hello,
>
> Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 02:06:18 Pavol Babincak, vous avez écrit :
>> URI scheme handlers allows VLC to manifest ability to open these URIs.
>> Practically it means that if user wants to open url like
>> mms://example.com/ system may automatically choose VLC to open it.
>
> Hmm? This is not in the desktop entry specification, not even the git tree.
- I've created patch against latest master of git repository
git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git. What do you mean it is not git tree?
- To my knowledge vlc.desktop.in is used as source for vlc.desktop. Am I wrong?


>> I haven't included http, ftp, etc. because they are better handled by
>> web browsers than media player.
>
> So how does the "desktop" knows that VLC supports HTTP and FTP, but not NNTP
> and Gopher then?
I haven't included nntp and gopher schemes in desktop file. Therefore
I don't understand why would "desktop" known that.

I've found that gnome-default-applications-properties (Gnome
application for setting couple of default applications) thinks that
application which can handle http is web browser. Because of that it
lists VLC in list of available web browsers which could confuse user.

You are right. Now desktop doesn't automatically know that VLC can
handle streams from HTTP and FTP. These can be added be added if
aforementioned Gnome "problem" is ok.


Pavol