Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:09:42 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Paje da Oca <root@maloca.oca.org.br> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real Player as a plug-in Message-ID: <20000421160942.B234@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004210430170.746-100000@maloca.oca.org.br>; from root@maloca.oca.org.br on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:40:13AM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004202218300.4063-100000@mammalia.sea> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004210430170.746-100000@maloca.oca.org.br>
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:40:13AM -0300, Paje da Oca wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Paje da Oca wrote: > > > Hi, I have installed RealPlayer 5.0 for Unix on my FreeBSD 3.4, but > > > I don`t know how to make Netscape 4.72 recognize it as a plugin. > > > > > > It is working as an `application`, the same way it would work if > > > I started it by hand, but it is not beeing recognized as a plugin. > > > > > > PS: The sound is quite bad, but I think that is the way RealPlayer > > > works in Unix. Or am I wrong? > > > > Why don't you use RealPlayer7 Beta for Linux? That's what I'm using now > > with my newly installed DSL connection, and the sound is about like good > > FM radio quality. Of course, over a dial up connection, it isn't that > > good, but still better than version 5.0 I think. Plus, the 5.0 version > > doesn't work with many of the current formats. > > Thank you very much for your suggestion. I got RealPlayer7 Beta > for Linux and installed it. The installation process even told > me that RealPlayer had been installed as a plug-in... but... > Are you using the Linux version of Netscape? AFAIK the RealPlayer plugins don't work with the native FreeBSD Netscape. RP7 works for me with Linux-netscape. Note also that rpnhelper needs to be in your PATH. It lives in /usr/local/RealPlayer7 so either add that to $PATH or, as I've done, symlink it from /usr/local/bin. HTH > > As for getting it to work as a plug in, I'm not sure what the difference > > is between using it as a plug in and simply setting Netscape to use > > RealPlayer as the default application for opening files with a particular > > suffix, in this case ra, rm, and ram. That's how I do it and it works > > well. > > ... I don`t know the difference, either, but when clicking on > some links, Netscape complains that the plug-in has not been > installed, and it opens a page to make the download. > (for example, you could check http://www.senado.gov.br/ and > click on ``Radio Senado``, in the center of the page) > > ... and if I click on other files, Netscape opens RealPlayer7 > > Unfortunately, the sound is even worst than with RV5, I tried > different setup options with no luck (perhaps lack of sleep :-) > > Thanks anyway, > Leonardo > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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