Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:52:11 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, myfreebsd@cox.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reaplay and mplay/mplugin.... Message-ID: <20051122035211.GA95435@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200511211608.07174.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <20051121143949.LRNS9108.eastrmmtao06.cox.net@[172.18.52.8]> <200511211246.58413.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051121234222.GA93918@thought.org> <200511211608.07174.akbeech@gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:07:53PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 02:42 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:46:42PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > > I also just installed mplayer for much the same reason. One question, > > > does one also need to uncomment the commands in mplayerplug-in.conf? I > > > notice that they are all commented out. > > > > > > Beech > > > > Yeah, I just (re-)discovred that on my test (ubuntu) box. For > > some reason, mplayer looks like it doesn't wwant to be a plugin; > > rather a stand-alone Windows a/v player. > > > > I just installed the newest Helix and from what I glimped, > > it supports both real and win streaming audio. Jeez, but > > I'd like one app that worked all the time. > > On the latest firefox it will recognize and launch the helix plugin, but it > then just stops with a blank window. The plugin worked in the previous > version of firefox. As for WMV, it didn't work even in the previous version. > I googled the problem a while ago and ran across something about firefox not > working with helix anymore, so I just sort of gave up. After I accidentally > nuked linuxpluginwrapper I deleted and reinstalled everything and it still > didn't work for me yesterday. > > Realplay does work as a standalone if you copy the URL into it, so the problem > is in the plugin. I don't know if any or all of this applies to mozilla. If > linuxpluginwrapper isn't fixed soon I'll take all the pertinent info from > the last couple of threads and write up a how-to, as I do have flash and > acroread working at this point with linuxpluginwrapper. > > Mplayer works great with WMV, but running real-anything does in fact crash > firefox after a short time. Hopefully one of these apps will get fixed to run > both protocols as plugins, but for now I'll settle for mplayer and run > realplay stuff standalone. > > I discovered that URL's entered into realplay do work; at least with the .r* suffix. Is there a place in mplayer that I can stash windows audio URL's? gary PS: On my test platform I have firefox as the default; here I'm using mozilla. Same deal with realplay, rm and mp3 work; mplayer just stopps dead. ... . -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20051122035211.GA95435>