Akom's Tech Ruminations

In Ubuntu 15.04 it already works in Firefox as long as you have vlc installed, and you select /usr/bin/vlc the first time Firefox asks you what to do. Not so much in Chrome... Chrome uses xdg-open to determine what to launch. By default, xdg-open has no idea what to do with a mms://1.2.3.4/something.wmv style URL, so we need to set up a protocol action in xdg, as per http://askubuntu.com/questions/190895/how-to-change-what-xdg-open-does-with-ssh-userip-liniks :

xdg-mime default vlc.desktop x-scheme-handler/mms

UPDATE: I find that vlc does not gracefully recover from eTVnet's "glitches" - sound stops playing but video continues. Surprisingly, Totem does not have this issue, so I swtiched:

xdg-mime default totem.desktop x-scheme-handler/mms