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Originally Posted by qole View Post
I copied the mms:// link from YoDude's TV Station website, and then opened a terminal and typed, "mplayer <pasted link>" and it played.

So the next test was to paste the mms:// link into the address bar of the browser and change the "mms://" to "http://". Now I get a dialog box that says "dbus-switchboard" handles this type, and when I click on "Open," mplayer plays the file.

So, a quick and dirty fix is either a bookmarklet or greasemonkey script that changes all "mms://" links to "http://" links. Combine this with dbus-switchboard, and your problem is solved. Well, except for the fact that .wmv looks like crap on maemo-mplayer due to the error I mentioned above.

Anyone want to write the javascript?
Thanks fellas (pipeline and qole) for running this down for me.

So it sounds like for now, running dbus-switchboard, GreaseMonkey, and a yet to be written script is the way to go.

Could a future change in dbus-switchboard also accomplish this?