Re: Media URL/file handling question - downloading file vs. passing URL to player app?

Chris Woodfield wrote:
> James Moe wrote:
> 
> 
>>Chris Woodfield wrote:
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>>>My question is: is there any way to conrol this? There are times where
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>>  Use Edit->Preferences->Helper Applications to decided how various MIME 
>>types are handled.
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> 
> I see that, but my only options are "open in application" (which 
> downloads the file complete, and then opens it in the helper app) or 
> "save to disk" (which downloads the file but does not launch the helper 
> app). I would like to see an option that passes the URL to the helper 
> application, so that that app can handle the loading/streaming of the 
> media file directly. That already happens with Windows Media Player (not 
> sure why) with Mozilla and Firefox under OS X; I'd like to see a similar 
> function for Real and Quicktime players.

I believe that WMP does it with a plugin, similar to how QT operates. 
so this request would best be delivered to real and to apple.

-scratch