From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 25 10:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CCE37B76D; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.97.47]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000725181037.CRBA3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:10:37 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01218; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:11:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:11:14 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: David Uhring Cc: Jim Mock , Andreas Ntaflos , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: realplayer and freebsd? Message-ID: <20000725181114.B236@parish> References: <397AD5C2.AE2E5605@gmx.net> <20000723140206.B236@parish> <20000723094827.A5951@luna.osd.bsdi.com> <20000725012953.G236@parish> <001701bff5fc$f0cb9220$0400a8c0@uhring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <001701bff5fc$f0cb9220$0400a8c0@uhring.com>; from duhring@charter.net on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:55:25AM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:55:25AM -0500, David Uhring wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Ovens" > To: "Jim Mock" > Cc: "Andreas Ntaflos" ; > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:29 PM > Subject: Re: realplayer and freebsd? > > [snip] > > OK, I've installed the port. Do you know a URL where the plugin will > > (should) actually run? Everywhere I try (e.g. radio stations) just > > fires up the external RP program, plays Welcome.rm and just sits > > there. > > [snip] > > http://real.com Click on Radio Stations on the left side of the page, then > select your choice of music. OK, I picked the first one, "Rock 'n' Roll At Your Fingertips" > RP should come up and indicate "contacting". Yes, it did, but after trying for ~10 secs a pop-up appeared: Some components are not available to provide playback of this presentation on your system" Clicking "More Info" took me to http://service.real.com/errors/more_information.html?errorid=notdef&hurlid=75618157 and this message: RealSystem G2 Messages This is an infrequently occurring error message, and therefore we have not provided a solution in this list. Please send e-mail to Technical Support using the Support Request form. In your request, please include the error message text as well as what you were doing just prior to the message's appearance. I've changed all instances of ``%u'' to ``%s'' as recommended by someone else. BTW, the original problem of it just playing "Welcome.rm" was because I hadn't realized that the 2 scripts, pluginstall.sh and postinstall.sh were per-user and had only run them as root. I'm still trying to find a .rpm file to fire up the plugin. I'm beginning to think that RealPlayer is a load of crap > If it doesn't, check your > mime-types in Netscape/Edit/ > Preferences/Navigator/Applications. If all else fails, download the > RealPlayer8 Basic for Redhat, > the binary executable version, not the rpm. Make the file executable chmod > +x and run it. It works > and works just fine. You will get a SEGFAULT after completing the install > and registration crap, > don't worry about it. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message