reaplay and mplay/mplugin....
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Tue Nov 22 03:52:26 GMT 2005
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:07:53PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I discovered that URL's entered into realplay do work; at least
with the .r* suffix. Is there a place in mplayer that I can
stash windows audio URL's?
gary
PS: On my test platform I have firefox as the default; here
I'm using mozilla. Same deal with realplay, rm and mp3 work;
mplayer just stopps dead. ... .
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