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Date:      Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:47:53 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer & fontconfig
Message-ID:  <200512231047.53486.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051223103124.G92085@olmec>
References:  <20051219035752.GA27224@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> <200512230030.35818.kstewart@owt.com> <20051223103124.G92085@olmec>

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On Friday 23 December 2005 07:57 am, Darren Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > Use the location menu item on RealPlayer and add
> > http://66.246.59.69:8700
> >
> > You probably won't understand it but Xeoax, Oaxaca is the only
> > realaudio stream that I listen to.
>
> kmplayer and gmplayer handle it perfectly. Xine handles it but
> doesn't sound quite as good (lot of tinkering that can be done there
> though).
>
> Totem plays it but its only tolerable if you really like chipmunks.
>

Even mplayer will play it if you get past the message about=20
~/.mplayer/subfont.tttf.

If you can play it, the application works over the network. I have been=20
known to record the news from Oaxaca, M=E9xico and burn a CD for friends=20
from there. It is a kind of poke in the ribs to get them on the=20
Internet. It hasn't worked yet but I keep trying :).

If realplayer won't work with firefox, the relationship between firefox=20
preferences > download actions and audio/x-pn-realaudio is screwed up.=20
You should be able to point the firefox file action to anything that=20
will play a realaudio file type. This is also true for mp3 file=20
actions.

Before I did any of this, I added links to nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt=20
in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins=20
and /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins

I don't know which one made the difference. I tweaked until I could see=20
the plugins in mozilla. I am also using the default libmap.conf for the=20
version [56]-stable.

At any rate, firefox-1.5_5,1 will play *.ram files on all of my systems=20
(with sound cards, speakers and either 5-stable or 6-stable) when I=20
visit websites with realaudio *.ram files. The only problem is that the=20
realaudio sites I listen to are folkl=F3ric sites from Columbia and=20
Venezuela. This includes winamp playlists using xmms.

I haven't made mozilla work but then I don't miss the capability=20
either :).

Kent

=2D-=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

"Nunca te acostar=E1s sin saber una cosa m=E1s"
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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