Real Player on Firefox under FreeBSD 5.4 not playing video

[David Wassman]

On Monday 04 July 2005 08:19 pm, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, David Wassman wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am in a hurry to the movies so this will be short. I appologize. I
> > am having some difficulty in getting realplayer feeds to show in
> > Firefox. I get audio but no piture. Either a blank screen or some
> > jumbled mess. Is there a fix to this? Also is it possible to not use
> > helix at all but mplayer to play realplayer feeds? If so how is this
> > done? Thanks for the help and if you need more info, just asks
>
> To use mplayerplug-in:
>
>   0. Don power gloves
>
>   1. Execute:
>
>     # rm /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix*
>     # sed -i -e 's/^#enable-real=0/enable-real=1/'
> /usr/X11R6/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf # touch
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
>
>   2. Restart mozilla
>
> Not that it seems to work too well: my first attempt at viewing a real
> movie (from www.real.com) got stuck, the second attempt crashed. But
> there it is...
>
>     $.02,
>     /Mikko
Mikko

Got it to work but your right, it is trickey. I don't seem to have a problem 
playing the video just when I press back on the browser, it freezes. You 
wouldn't happen to know the solution to the other problem?

Thanks for the help.
David