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Date:      Mon, 4 Jul 2005 23:39:18 -0400
From:      David Wassman <dmwassman@cox.net>
To:        Mikko =?iso-8859-1?q?Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Real Player on Firefox under FreeBSD 5.4 not playing video
Message-ID:  <200507042339.18743.dmwassman@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050704170900.G1819@sotec.home>
References:  <200507041818.38821.dmwassman@cox.net> <20050704170900.G1819@sotec.home>

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On Monday 04 July 2005 08:19 pm, Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, David Wassman wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am in a hurry to the movies so this will be short. I appologize. I
> > am having some difficulty in getting realplayer feeds to show in
> > Firefox. I get audio but no piture. Either a blank screen or some
> > jumbled mess. Is there a fix to this? Also is it possible to not use
> > helix at all but mplayer to play realplayer feeds? If so how is this
> > done? Thanks for the help and if you need more info, just asks
>
> To use mplayerplug-in:
>
>   0. Don power gloves
>
>   1. Execute:
>
>     # rm /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix*
>     # sed -i -e 's/^#enable-real=3D0/enable-real=3D1/'
> /usr/X11R6/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf # touch
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
>
>   2. Restart mozilla
>
> Not that it seems to work too well: my first attempt at viewing a real
> movie (from www.real.com) got stuck, the second attempt crashed. But
> there it is...
>
>     $.02,
>     /Mikko
Mikko

Got it to work but your right, it is trickey. I don't seem to have a proble=
m=20
playing the video just when I press back on the browser, it freezes. You=20
wouldn't happen to know the solution to the other problem?

Thanks for the help.
David



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