Real Player on Firefox under FreeBSD 5.4 not playing video

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

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