reaplay and mplay/mplugin....

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Monday 21 November 2005 02:42 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:46:42PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> > I also just installed mplayer for much the same reason. One question,
> > does one also need to uncomment the commands in mplayerplug-in.conf? I
> > notice that they are all commented out.
> >
> > Beech
>
> 	Yeah, I just (re-)discovred that on my test (ubuntu) box.  For
> 	some reason, mplayer looks like it doesn't wwant to be a plugin;
> 	rather a stand-alone Windows a/v player.
>
> 	I just installed the newest Helix and from what I glimped,
> 	it supports both real and win streaming audio.  Jeez, but
> 	I'd like one app that worked all the time.

On the latest firefox it will recognize and launch the helix plugin, but it 
then just stops with a blank window. The plugin worked in the previous 
version of firefox. As for WMV, it didn't work even in the previous version. 
I googled the problem a while ago and ran across something about firefox not 
working with helix anymore, so I just sort of gave up. After I accidentally 
nuked linuxpluginwrapper I deleted and reinstalled everything and it still 
didn't work for me yesterday.

Realplay does work as a standalone if you copy the URL into it, so the problem 
is in the plugin. I don't know if any or all of this applies to mozilla. If 
linuxpluginwrapper isn't fixed soon I'll take all the pertinent  info from 
the last couple of threads and write up a how-to, as I do have flash and 
acroread working at this point with linuxpluginwrapper.

Mplayer works great with WMV, but running real-anything  does in fact crash 
firefox after a short time. Hopefully one of these apps will get fixed to run 
both protocols as plugins, but for now I'll settle for mplayer and run 
realplay stuff standalone.

Beech
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