Safari and .asf files

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NP3

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 11, 2004

• #1

I'm a frequent Xanga user...and many people on it have .asf files that play music...

But unfortunately Safari wants to download the files each time and play them in VLC. How do i turn this off?

 

varmit

macrumors 68000

• May 12, 2004

• #2

get windows media player

Other than copying and pasting with VLC, the only player that can play asf right off the internet is windows own media player.

 

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5

• May 12, 2004

• #3

varmit said:

Other than copying and pasting with VLC, the only player that can play asf right off the internet is windows own media player.

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...and Windows Media Player can't play content inline either, just like VLC. So there ISN'T a way around it, unfortunately.

 

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NP3

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 12, 2004

• #4

wrldwzrd89 said:

...and Windows Media Player can't play content inline either, just like VLC. So there ISN'T a way around it, unfortunately.

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Humm...sorry i worded that wrong...i don't want to listen to the music...the problem is that safari downloads the .asf file to view in VLC every time i view the page. I'm looking for something like the old netscape days when you could change how every type of file is handled...so i can turn this automatic downloading off.

 

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5

• May 13, 2004

• #5

NP3 said:

Humm...sorry i worded that wrong...i don't want to listen to the music...the problem is that safari downloads the .asf file to view in VLC every time i view the page. I'm looking for something like the old netscape days when you could change how every type of file is handled...so i can turn this automatic downloading off.

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Stupid Safari won't let you change the file type handling settings - I don't know why Apple did this, but it forces me (and others) to put a request in to Apple if you want a particular file type handled in a standard way (for example, I had to put in a request to Apple for Safari to handle .sitx files like all other archives, since that's what they are, most of the time).