Real player doesn't launch from web pages.

[gary]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 14:12 -0500, Robert Cahn wrote:
> When I go to WNYC ( www.wnyc.org ) and hit the link for their MP3
> stream.  A little notification pops up saying, "You have chosen to
> open wnycfm.pls" and asks me if I want to open it with
> realplay.desktop (I installed realplayer there by accident.)  Then
> nothing happens.  Real player doesn't launch.  If I manually launch
> Realplayer and then try to launch
> http://www.wnyc.org/stream/wnycfm.pls manually the Real player
> application freezes.  I can, however, install other streams, WBUR for
> example.  Two questions:
>   1. How do I reenable the launching of Real player from Firefox?
>   2. What might keep the WNYC stream from being accepted?
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> /Bob Cahn

question #1 - Have you ever successfully played streaming audio
              with your current RealPlayer setup ?     - gary