Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:51:17 -0900 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reaplay and mplay/mplugin.... Message-ID: <200511220051.30192.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051122035211.GA95435@thought.org> References: <20051121143949.LRNS9108.eastrmmtao06.cox.net@[172.18.52.8]> <200511211608.07174.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051122035211.GA95435@thought.org>
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--nextPart2641211.Pd5UBUA0yb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 November 2005 06:52 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 questio= n, > > > > 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 previo= us > > 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 abo= ut > > 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? If you're running KDE try kplayer (in the ports). it's a standalone front e= nd=20 for mplayer that integrates nicely into KDE. I've been playing with it all= =20 afternoon and everything works as advertised. It also has a playlist. > 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. ... . =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2641211.Pd5UBUA0yb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDguohVq19LUoGB+MRAlwQAJ4skG8hPGyvAi+nSTQp0vboesREiwCfSDCr tsXq/93tzt7yALLhmuoZqtU= =CtXp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2641211.Pd5UBUA0yb--
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