The Net Toob Player is a Netscape plug-in that allows you to view MPEG, m15 and m75 movies. Since it works from within Netscape, most movies you will view with it are those embedded on a web page. However, you can also watch any MPEG movie that is on your hard drive simply by selecting "Open╔" from Netscape's "File" menu and then selecting a movie.
Compatibility
The Net Toob Player has been tested with Netscape Navigator and currently does not run under Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Installation Notes
When installing the Net Toob Player, make sure Netscape Navigator is not currently running.
Memory Issues
After installing the Net Toob Player, chances are good that Netscape will need more memory allocated to it in order to run all its plug-ins. The solution is to increase the memory requirements for Netscape.
[Note: This may be true of other browsers as well. If that is the case, these instructions apply to other browser applications as well.]
Changing Netscape's Memory allocation
1. Make sure Netscape is not currently running.
2. From the Finder, highlight the Netscape application icon.
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3. From the "File" menu, select "Get Info" (or press Command-I)
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4. You should see something similar to this:
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5. Add 2500 ( or more ) to the number in the "Preferred Size" slot.
This number should be 10000 or more.
6. Close the window.
Netscape will now use the additional memory and the Net Toob plug-in should work properly. If there is still a problem, try adding more memory to Nescape using the procedure outlined above.
Netscape Preferences
In order for Netscape to know which plug-ins or helper applications to use on a given web page, it uses a convention known as "MIME" (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types. These MIME types are a text string in the format: "[general-type]/[specific-type]".
In order to play MPEG movies, all you need to be concerned with are the following MIME types:
video/mpg
video/mpe
video/mpv
MPEG Video
video/x-mpg
video/x-mpe
video/x-mpv
video/x-mpeg
If you want Net Toob to play MPEG movies set the previous mime types to Net Toob.
In order to play duplexx movies ( m15, m75, xpg etc.), all you need to be concerned with are the following MIME types:
video/x-xpe
video/xpeg
video/mpeg-realtime
video/xpg
video/x-xpg
video/x-m15
video/x-m75
video/m75
video/m15
If you want Net Toob to play duplexx movies set the previous mime types to Net Toob.
Each Web browser (ie. Cyberdog, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator) has a way of associating a plug-in or helper application with each a MIME type. Be sure to associate all the above MIME types with the Net Toob Player plug-in.