lowell wrote:

        An obviously newbish question: I've got mplayer working
standalone; now how do I name it as the app to play files with in Mozilla?
I looked around in preferences but nothing was too apparent (it needs to
be REALLY apparent for me...:-(   .)
TIA

   You need a seperate plugin called mplayer-plugin that allows mplayer
   to run within a browser. If you want to simply automatically execute
   mplayer to handle a particular file type, "Helper Applications" can
   accomplish that.