RealPlayer mimetypes are not what they should be.
Folks. I have an issue. When I go to about:plugins in mozilla I see that the RealPlayer plugin is associated with RPM..not ram or rm formats. So consequently when I download rpm's it starts RealPlayer and when I try to view a realplayer file it does absolutely nothing. I had nothing in helper applications in Mozilla then I put the correct entry for helper applications and it changed nothing. This setting is from SuSE's RealPlayer pkg and it's in SuSE Mozilla pkg. I've done nothing special to it. It's like this on my 8.1 box in the office and my 8.0 box at home. I thought it was CrossOver that had screwed up the mime types. It appears that this isn't the case. If anyone has any thoughts on this that would be great. *sigh* This fighting with every single little thing when it comes to media programs under Linux is getting so bloody old. :( Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
I have the same problem. Did the same thing last night and so what, no change. I am a bit niffed about the fact that 8.1 has substantial improvements in it and at the same time such simple things that worked before, like have moz and plugins work don't work anymore. Realplayer will not open links in any browser and tells me an error has occurred and offers a button in the pop-up for details. When pressing the details buttons the the pop-up disappears and no details (so debugging or workarounds becomes very hard). I went to the netscape dir and moved the plugins to the moz/plugins dir and that made it worse (now I have to figure out how to get it back to where it was). And I created a plugins dir and copied the plugins in my ~/home/<users> dir and, well, so what - no change. So, anyone with any suggestions? TIA, Curtis On Thursday 24 October 2002 13:38, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Folks. I have an issue. When I go to about:plugins in mozilla I see that the RealPlayer plugin is associated with RPM..not ram or rm formats. So consequently when I download rpm's it starts RealPlayer and when I try to view a realplayer file it does absolutely nothing. I had nothing in helper applications in Mozilla then I put the correct entry for helper applications and it changed nothing. This setting is from SuSE's RealPlayer pkg and it's in SuSE Mozilla pkg. I've done nothing special to it. It's like this on my 8.1 box in the office and my 8.0 box at home. I thought it was CrossOver that had screwed up the mime types. It appears that this isn't the case.
If anyone has any thoughts on this that would be great. *sigh* This fighting with every single little thing when it comes to media programs under Linux is getting so bloody old. :(
Regards,
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Folks. I have an issue. When I go to about:plugins in mozilla I see that the RealPlayer plugin is associated with RPM..not ram or rm formats. So consequently when I download rpm's it starts RealPlayer and when I try to view a realplayer file it does absolutely nothing. I had nothing in helper applications in Mozilla then I put the correct entry for helper applications and it changed nothing. This setting is from SuSE's RealPlayer pkg and it's in SuSE Mozilla pkg. I've done nothing special to it. It's like this on my 8.1 box in the office and my 8.0 box at home. I thought it was CrossOver that had screwed up the mime types. It appears that this isn't the case.
If anyone has any thoughts on this that would be great. *sigh* This fighting with every single little thing when it comes to media programs under Linux is getting so bloody old. :(
Regards,
I would have to agree with you about media programs for Linux. There is just nothing good about them. Perhaps things will improve somewhat when Theora is ready, but I'm not going to hold my breath. For one thing, most media content on the web will still be RealPlayer, Windows Media, or Quicktime. As for your problem with the mime types. I took a look at about:plugins in my home compiled version of Mozilla 1.2b, and it is as you say. The file extension is .rpm, when I was under the impression that it should be .rm and .ram. I am using the RealPlayer plugin as downloaded from netscape's plugin-in site, and eventhough the mime types seem to be wrong, things on my machine seem to work correctly. I can download an rpm and Realplayer does not start. I can view embedded real formats in web pages, and I can locally open real files using Mozilla, and they work correctly. I surfed over to netscape, specifically to http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=11383 and checked out what it has to say. Seems the file extension that is being used these days IS .rpm, which seems a recipe for disaster. So I downloaded Realplayer, installed it in a different place from the version I am currently using, and then manually put rpnp.so in mozilla/plugins, after first backing up my old rpnp.so. I wanted to see if there was something different about the new plugin. Everything seems to still work correctly when using this plugin, and I have not specified the mime type to Mozilla; it just seems to use the correct plugin. Have you tried downloading RealPlayer and installing the plugin manually? It seems to work correctly. Long story short, I have no idea why the SuSE package is not working. What version of Mozilla is being packaged with 8.1? Perhaps there lies the problem. hth, Kevin
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