On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:34 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 13 January 2007 17:23, Temlakos wrote: > > Everyone: > > > > Just installed RealPlayer 10. No dependencies detected. Setup Assistant > > ran through. But when I go to play a video, the mplayer-plugin wants to > > load, and of course it chokes. But more than that: > > > > When I download a "test video" from Real.com, I get sound, but no picture. > > > > When I go to play certain videos (specifically at foxnews.com), again I > > get sound, but no picture. > > > > On a hunch, I removed totem--completely. It was never doing anything for > > me anyway. (That's right--I never did get totem to play /any/ of my > > DVD's, and I have gnome-cd to play audio cd's.) > > > > That removed a lot of useless plugins. But it still didn't solve the > > problem of my not being able to play RealAudio or RealVideo content. Again: > > > > Download response: Sound, but no picture. Should have picture and sound. > > > > Site-visit response: Either sound, but no picture, or else mplayer tries > > to load, and then stops. (Mplayer will play other plug-in videos, so > > long as they're not too big. I tested that at apple.com's movie trailer > > site.) > > > > What hidden dependency have I missed? > > > > Temlakos > > It may be worth checking the Mplayerplugins. There are loads of them, > including one ending in .rm, which is the realmedia one, and is an earlier > version of realplayer. > > I'm still using FC2, and Mplayerplugins arn't automatically set up in Firefox. > I have to link to the ones I want to use. I have realplayer10GOLD.bin > installed, and can see video output, but because I'm on dialup it's > continually buffering because of lack of bandwidth. > > I'd suggest removing Mplayerplugins realmedia plugin, then reopen Firefox, > type "about:plugins" (without the double quotes), and see which plugins are > showing. You should see just one for realplayer10GOLD. Then try the site > again. > > Nigel. > I just tried it in FC4 and it did not work for me. Nothing I do can get an audio stream from www.npr.org, let us say to be opened by realplay rather than mplayer and mplayer will not play the stream. If I send the stream directly to realplay it plays. Further I have never been able to affect the display of about:plugins in firefox. It still says that it will use RealPlayer 9 even though it is RealPlayer10 which is installed. I have made it work at times with other systems where when I first go to the audio stream it asks me whether I want to use RealPlayer of Windows Media Player. But on this machine I am not asked and it just does not work. Any advice? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
