From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 29 01:52:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3130716A401 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:52:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C0A13C459 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:52:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3T1t5vH092696; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l3T1t4x5092695; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:55:04 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Danny Pansters Message-ID: <20070429015503.GA92606@thought.org> References: <20070428195720.GA34336@thought.org> <200704290032.37933.danny@ricin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200704290032.37933.danny@ricin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc question #2:: howto stream .RAM/realplay via "kmplayer"?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:52:52 -0000 On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Saturday 28 April 2007 21:57:21 Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm still building my backup DNS server on my remaining Kayak > > playing with various window managers (aka "desktops"). Stuck. > > To any browser/media/audio wizards out there in freebsd-land: > > > > A few weeks ago (after failing with both mozilla and firefox) > > I tried the KDE broswer to stream video. And after several > > tries, got kmplayer working with Konqueror. It streams windows > > video and better yet, streams windows audio (using the Mplayer > > backend). But there are some NPR/PBS webcasts only in > > real-audio. After a few hours of poking around the web and > > trying to reconfigure Konqueror I-give-up. > > > > I've reached the "File Association" -> "Audio" and to > > "x-pn-realplay" {or something like that}, then I'm wedged. > > Is there an honest textfile I can use to associate [.ra, .rm, > > .ram] with /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay???? > > > > thanks for any help! > > > > > > gary > > First, you need to confirm that you can play Real in kmplayer. You must have > the win32 codecs. Fast forward and such in a Real stream will be a bitch. But > it plays. Then you want to go through the mime types in konqueror's config > and set kmplayer to the first app to play such types with. And for embedding > (the other tab) set the kmplayer_part or whatsitcalled as the first or only. Yeah, I finally finally clicked on the Other tab. But then what? Where are the mimetypes and config for konqueror?? > > Mime types would include/have: vn-realmedia, rm, ra, ram, rv, smil, > vn-realaudio vn-realvideo, x-pn-realaudio, and several other older ones. If > you don't find them all at first you'll find them when encountering a oddly > mime-ified stream that wont play. > I do have a ~/.mimetypes file on this server. Maybe I'll just scp it over and see. > There's another way to have Real with konqueror, and that is with the plugin > that comes with the realplayer port. It may have poor layout in the webpage > but at least it does support moving back and forth in the stream. To make > this work you use the linuxpluginwrapper port and an appropriate libmap.conf. Well getting the plugin is a no-brainer; same with the linuxwrapper/plugin port; but the libmap.cnf is another matter! Do you have one to send? Or anyone else on-list? > > Both work reasonably well, or equally bad depending on the tilting of the > earth and the humidity on the moon :) I usually prefer kmplayer because it > can be used as a general a/v plugin replacement in konqueror and if something > with Real doesn't work I can always try to "Open with.." realplayer instead. :-) I do the open-with and it starts to work/tries to, then hangs. I'd just like to be able to watch the BBC/PBS stuff and listen to Windose or Real streams without too much hassle! > > HTH, So far, so good, thankee! gary > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix