Talk:Cortado (software)

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This article was nominated for deletion on September 29, 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

[edit] remove notability tag?

I added some information on the notability of this piece of software. Maybe we can remove the template now?--Speck-Made (talk) 08:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How do I get Firefox to play a downloaded Ogg file?

Concerning the Cortado software the wikipedia article says, "Among others it is used on Wikimedia projects..."

My fully-updated Firefox browser on Windows XP plays ogg files fine on Wikipedia pages. But when I click on the downloaded file I get a popup window asking what to play it with. I can't get the Firefox browser to play it. I would like to use whatever Firefox is using to stream the ogg file.

Isn't the Firefox browser using Cortado Java plug-ins to play ogg music files? There is an ogg music file I can stream fine when I click the play button on this page:

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When I click it I find out that it lists the Cortado Java player as being the current selected player. It also offers QuickTime as an option. QuickTime could not play it.

I downloaded the ogg file. When I click the downloaded file, I can't get the Firefox browser to play it. I don't want to install other players yet.

Where do I browse to in Windows to select the Cortado Java player? I am talking about when I click on the downloaded ogg file and the popup window asks what I want to use to open the ogg file with.

I also asked at Wikipedia talk:Media help (Ogg).

It would be good to include info in the article as to how Wikimedia and Wikipedia uses the Cortado software. I don't remember installing it separately. So I assume it is part of the normal Firefox software install, and not Firefox plugins. Or maybe it is part of the Firefox automatic Java updates. Did Wikimedia have anything to do with making that happen? --Timeshifter (talk) 12:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

You don't install Cortado; you install Java to make Cortado work on your browser. If you already downloaded the Ogg file (video or audio) then you can also play it on a real player like WMP. For WMP all you need is to install the DirectShow Ogg codecs. That's it. Don't over complicate it.--Ivo ^{talk / contribs} (join Project Portugal) 01:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

If it wasn't clear, Cortado is a player loaded from Wikimedia servers and works as a Java application to load the Ogg files in Wikimedia. You need to have Java installed, as well as enabled in Firefox (in case you or an extension disabled it).--Ivo ^{talk / contribs} (join Project Portugal) 01:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

thanks. So I guess my Firefox browser downloads the small Cortado application each time I click on a streaming Ogg file link on a web page. I will have to try to find the DirectShow Ogg codecs for Windows Media Player as you suggested. In order to play Ogg files offline. --Timeshifter (talk) 19:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)