From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 03:52:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D1016A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85A243D79 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:52:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAM3qCSr095494; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jAM3qCRd095493; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:52:11 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Beecher Rintoul Message-ID: <20051122035211.GA95435@thought.org> References: <20051121143949.LRNS9108.eastrmmtao06.cox.net@[172.18.52.8]> <200511211246.58413.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051121234222.GA93918@thought.org> <200511211608.07174.akbeech@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511211608.07174.akbeech@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , myfreebsd@cox.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reaplay and mplay/mplugin.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:52:26 -0000 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