On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 11:40, Thom Nuzum wrote:

Firefox is a great improvement and the BBC Real Player works with pause and forward too.

I downloaded the BBC Real Player as root on SuSE Pro 9.0 but I haven't been able to get it working as a plug-in with Firefox. I'd appreciate detailed step-by-step guidance. TIA. Kelly Morris

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:42, Osho GG wrote:

In Firefox, type

about:plugins

in the address bar and press enter. You should see a list of plugins that firefox nows. Do you see something like

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible

File name: nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.293 built with gcc 3.2.2 on Jul 30 2004

Osho

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes

No, it's not on the available plugin list. I downloaded RealPlayer1oGOLD as root, but I can't seem to find where I downloaded it :-( To what folder should I download it?

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:14:36 -0500, Kelly J. Morris wrote:

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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 11:40, Thom Nuzum wrote:

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Firefox is a great improvement and the BBC Real Player works with pause and forward too.

I downloaded the BBC Real Player as root on SuSE Pro 9.0 but I haven't been able to get it working as a plug-in with Firefox. I'd appreciate detailed step-by-step guidance.

TIA. Kelly Morris

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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:45, David Robertson wrote:

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:14 -0500, Kelly J. Morris wrote:

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I downloaded the BBC Real Player as root on SuSE Pro 9.0 butI haven't been able to get it working as a plug-in with Firefox. I'd appreciate detailed step-by-step guidance.

RealPlayer installs the plugins for Mozilla, so you need to create them in the Firefox plugin directory. Assuming you have a default installation of RealPlayer 10,

open a terminal, cd to the Firefox plugin directory, and enter the following, as root:

ln -sf /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so ln -sf /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt

HTH

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Actually, idiot that I am, I must have downloaded but not finished installing it and now I can't find where I downloaded it to. this material is distributed without profit for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material posted to this list for purposes that go beyond "fair use," you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Content: The sender does not vouch for the veracity nor the accuracy of the contents of this message, which are the sole responsibility of the copyright owner. Also, the sender does not necessarily agree or disagree with any opinions that are expressed in this message. ************************************************************************

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:54 +0100, Paul Ryan wrote: --snip--

Why not just download it again as RPM it is available from Real and install it via Yast I did today and everything works fine

Because the rpm or .bin files don't install the plugins for Firefox. David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 18:25, Donn Washburn wrote:

Kelly J. Morris wrote:

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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:45, David Robertson wrote:

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On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:14 -0500, Kelly J. Morris wrote:

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ln -sf /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so ln -sf /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt

On my 9.0 Pro system the path is /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins for the .so file/link and /opt/mozilla/lib/components for the .xpt file/link. (I landed the actual files in these directories instead of keeping the links. It works fine here, but YMMV, of course. Note: I had to manually relocate the .xpt file to /components because the installation didn't agree with the documentation. This location seems to be consistent with all of the other .xpt files in that directory.

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HTH

Hey Group;

SuSE puts all plugins in "/usr/lib/browser-plugins" and then makes a link from the /browser/plugin directory. Like a link "/opt/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so

So! ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/mozplugger.so (put all of this on one line) /opt/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so

I think you meant /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins

Get "plugger" at "http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html" and much more

I loved plugger and enjoyed a great e-mail exchange on installation tips with it's author, Frederik Hubbe. Note: mozplugger is a forked derivative from his original plugger that is now being maintained by someone else. You should try one or the other, but not both at the same time. They conflict with each other because they're both trying to provide the same functionality. After spending an entire week switching between all of the multimedia programs and plug-ins I could locate for this 9.0 Pro system, I decided against keeping either plugger or mozplugger installed. Too much overlap in file type handling was causing frequent contention between them and the underlying players. I solved these conflicts by keeping the combination of MPlayer, mplayerplug-in (v. 2.70 compiled by myself to support GTK1,) the stock Kaffeine plus all of xine and the associated libraries and codecs from http://packman.links2linux.com/ and RealPlayer 10. I've installed all of the codecs, including the Win32 versions, in /usr/lib/codecs and pointed all the programs that use them to look for them there. Now, everything is working as it should. I can view all on-line multimedia content from within Mozilla (1.6) except for live streams (rtsp & mms) served from masked locations -- where the web pages call them up using intermediary (usually javascript) routines. Example: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html To access content served in this manner using my current configuration, I have to use Konqueror -- which correctly identifies and captures the streams being handed off and launches them in the appropriate standalone applications. One final note: I don't know if Firefox is the same, but in Mozilla (1.6), it was necessary to open about:config (using the address bar) to register Real Player and Windows Media Player streaming content, as follows: Preference Name: network.protocol-handler.app.mms Status: user set Type: string Value: /usr/bin/gmplayer Preference Name: network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp Status: user set Type: string Value: /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay OK, sorry for the long-winded post. But I had a devil of a time getting everything working the way I wanted it here, and the installations you were addressing seemed quite similar, so I thought I'd jump in. Take care! - Carl

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 15:03, David Robertson wrote: <snip>

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Example: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html <snip> I can view that site's content in Firefox, so I'm surprised that it doesn't work with Mozilla. <snip> No, not necessary with Firefox.

David

Hi David, Thanks for the feedback. I tried again with new results. It might have been the server side last time. RealPlayer works great... opens the child frame, controls appear, it buffers then plays. Ditto in Konqueror. mplayerplug-in, however, displays the file name (/eu.mov) in the usual place, it starts buffering too fast, the progress bar freezes at 80% and the controls never appear. It might be they've used a new Quicktime codec. This is the same thing that happens on some, not all, content at Apple's website. BTW, I've been very happy with Mozilla, but it does seem to get a bit sluggish sometimes. I don't use the calendar or mail options and had thought about trying Firefox. Is it's performance really a big enough improvement to warrant installing and trying it out for a while? cheers, - Carl

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:00:12 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:

thought about trying Firefox. Is it's performance really a big enough improvement to warrant installing and trying it out for a while?

Yes, definitely. Firefox can import your bookmarks from Mozilla to make the process of moving slightly less painless. -- Osho

Kelly J. Morris wrote:

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:45, David Robertson wrote:

Actually, idiot that I am, I must have downloaded but not finished installing it and now I can't find where I downloaded it to.

Install findutils-locate, it sets up cron to run updatedb daily or you could run updatedb from the command line, eats up resources till it's finished, then do something like "locate -i gold", quicker than using find. This is one package that should be installed by default for the grief it saves in finding where you put that stuff. Sun will no doubt steal it for Solaris 10 and boast about this all new superfast find thingy that sets Sol10 apart from the crowd. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====