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