Mplayer plugin

[John M. Pantone]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:07:11 +0800, Chris Kloiber wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:51, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
>> This question came up earlier but I am having problems with the
>> resolution.  I am trying to access the MLB.TV streams. Helix works for the
>> MLB radio but not TV.  When I switched my preferences to Windows media the
>> mplayerplug-in loads, begins d/l the stream and then stops @ 17%.  I am
>> currently running FC1 and using Mozilla 1.6.  I have the mplayerplug-in
>> v2.11 installed. I tried upgrading the mplayer-plugin to 2.40, 2.45, 2.50
>> and 2.60 but they all crash the browser.  Has anyone else run into this
>> problem??
> 
> IIRC, that's premium content that's DRM'd up the ying-yang. You would
> need a license key from Real to view it, and last I checked there isn't
> even a place in the helix player to input it. Might have better luck
> with RealPlayer8 for Windows under wine (with license key). Not sure if
> anyone ever got RealOne working under wine or not. I haven't tried in a
> long time.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Kloiber

been using RealPlayer8 for MLB gameday audio - works great. Haven't tried
the video side of MLB though.