On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:49 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > So a mystery still exists. Why does the plugin for video and audio/video > > streams go to RealPlayer 9 when it is the Realplayer 10 plugins that are > > installed. It is a mystery. > > > > Pardon this top posting what you say below is so contrary to my experience that I have to comment in line. > > The realplayer plugin appears to wrap the realplay binary, > so the player you get is the one that opens if you enter > realplay at the command prompt. This means that it won't > work if realplay isn't in your PATH environement variable. > The name Firefox reports is the name reported by the plugin, > chosen by the plugin writer. I actually still have the helix > version (nphelix.so) in ~/.mozilla/plugins, and about:plugins > tells me: I know the name seems to agree with you but the RealPlayer web site claims that nphelix.so is the plugin for RealPlayer 10 and it is the only plugin you get from the install. I have no helix player on my machine and my configuration is not done in the mozilla plugin directories because it is firefox I want to configure. I am interested in a global configurqation so I place my plugins in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/plugins. about:configure does not produce any lines referring to nphelix nor Helix DNA .... and that is part of my comlplaint . Only a section on RealPlayer 9 appears. > > File name: nphelix.so > Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version > 0.4.0.622 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Jul 18 2006 > > There's no hxplay binary on this machine though, so it > runs realplay instead. If you run strings on the plugin > object file you will be able to see (among other things): > I see nothing that corresponds to what you list in the two paragraphs below. > The mimetype and description it handles eg > audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin:rpm:RealPlayer Plugin Metafile; > > The name it reports to firefox (Note that the version string > is referring to variables stored elsewhere): > Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible > %s version %s built with gcc %d.%d.%d on %s > > realplay (and hxplay in my case). > > Anyway, my plugin setup on FC6 is this: > Both the totem and mplayerplug-in are installed, however to > avoid totem treading on mplayer's toes and mplayer interfering > with the realplayer plugin I've done the following: > > 1. moved /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so > to > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so.bak > Similarly for libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt I also moved the mplayerplug-in-rm.so out of the way. > 2. I had moved /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so > to > usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so.bak > A new update seems to have reversed this, but it hasn't > registered with FF again, possibly because realplay is > already handling the media type > 3. Get the codecs package from the mplayer website and put > the contents in /usr/lib/codecs (or /usr/local/lib/codecs, > can't remember which works for FC6, and I linked one to the > other) > > Finally, looking at about:plugins you can see that they register > mimetypes and extensions. AFAICT Firefox uses the mimetype it > gets from the server to decide which plugin to use. If you try > to load a local file, or the server is badly set up, it has to > guess the mimetype. > Local files are not a problem. The bottom line is that firefox does not recognise or use the realplayer plugin and I would like to know how to make it do that. I am sorry but nothing in your explanation corresponds to what I am experiencing or seeing and I still don't know how to fix my problem. > I can trick Firefox into trying to use the realplayer plugin on > a local file by putting > 'type=audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin desc="Realplayer" exts="rm"' > in ~/.mime-types > If this file doesn't exist, mine looks like this after that change: > #--Netscape Communications Corporation MIME Information > #Do not delete the above line. It is used to identify the file type. > #mime types added by Netscape Helper > type=application/x-java-jnlp-file desc="Java Web Start" exts="jnlp" > # > type=audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin desc="Realplayer" exts="rm" > > (See also /etc/mime.types, but best not to edit it) > > Needless to say this will only work at all reliably if the plugin > expects the filetype you are trying to get it to view. Once again > though; this shouldn't be necessary when trying to view something > from a webpage and a local file is probably better used with a > stand-alone viewer. > > -- > imalone > -- ======================================================================= "All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
