RealPlayer 10 in FC6: Sound, But No Picture

Michael sieverfrisch at yahoo.ie
Sun Jan 14 23:29:39 UTC 2007


Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 00:52, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:34 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 13 January 2007 17:23, Temlakos wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Everyone:
>>>>
>>>> Just installed RealPlayer 10. No dependencies detected. Setup Assistant
>>>> ran through. But when I go to play a video, the mplayer-plugin wants to
>>>> load, and of course it chokes. But more than that:
>>>>
>>>> When I download a "test video" from Real.com, I get sound, but no
>>>> picture.
>>>>
>>>> When I go to play certain videos (specifically at foxnews.com), again I
>>>> get sound, but no picture.
>>>>
>>>> On a hunch, I removed totem--completely. It was never doing anything
>>>> for me anyway. (That's right--I never did get totem to play /any/ of my
>>>> DVD's, and I have gnome-cd to play audio cd's.)
>>>>
>>>> That removed a lot of useless plugins. But it still didn't solve the
>>>> problem of my not being able to play RealAudio or RealVideo content.
>>>> Again:
>>>>
>>>> Download response: Sound, but no picture. Should have picture and
>>>> sound.
>>>>
>>>> Site-visit response: Either sound, but no picture, or else mplayer
>>>> tries to load, and then stops. (Mplayer will play other plug-in videos,
>>>> so long as they're not too big. I tested that at apple.com's movie
>>>> trailer site.)
>>>>
>>>> What hidden dependency have I missed?
>>>>
>>>> Temlakos
>>>>         
>>> It may be worth checking the Mplayerplugins. There are loads of them,
>>> including one ending in .rm, which is the realmedia one, and is an
>>> earlier version of realplayer.
>>>
>>> I'm still using FC2, and Mplayerplugins arn't automatically set up in
>>> Firefox. I have to link to the ones I want to use. I have
>>> realplayer10GOLD.bin installed, and can see video output, but because I'm
>>> on dialup it's continually buffering because of lack of bandwidth.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest removing Mplayerplugins realmedia plugin, then reopen
>>> Firefox, type "about:plugins" (without the double quotes), and see which
>>> plugins are showing. You should see just one for realplayer10GOLD. Then
>>> try the site again.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>       
>> I just tried it in FC4 and it did not work for me. Nothing I do can get
>> an audio stream from www.npr.org, let us say to be opened by realplay
>> rather than mplayer and mplayer will not play the stream. If I send the
>> stream directly to realplay it plays.
>>
>> Further I have never been able to affect the display of about:plugins in
>> firefox. It still says that it will use RealPlayer 9 even though it is
>> RealPlayer10 which is installed. I have made it work at times with other
>> systems where when I first go to the audio stream it asks me whether I
>> want to use RealPlayer of Windows Media Player. But on this machine I am
>> not asked and it just does not work.
>> Any advice?
>> --
>> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
>>     
>
> Sorry for being slow to come back. I've been working on the acpi/shutdown 
> problem, without much success.
>
> Anyway I tried the site for audio with Firefox, which opened a window asking 
> me to select realplayer, or windows media player. I went for realplayer, and 
> got zilch. So,ok, I thought I'd try Windows media player. Shut down firefox, 
> opened it again from the link in Kmail, but no deal, it was still trying to 
> use realplayer. I gave it up last night as a bad job. 
>
> Anyway I cleared the Firefox cache, and anything else I could find to clear 
> today, and have tried the site again. Wonders of Wonders, I now have the 
> window asking me to select a player. Ok. I'll go for WMP this time, and about 
> 1 minute later I get sound, and miraculously it's still playing sound with no 
> breaks.
>
> So all that can be said is that the site works with Mplayerplugins .wmp 
> plugin, but doesn't seem to want to work with Realplayer10GOLD.bin.
>
> I must say that you really need to be on the ball, and ready to try 
> alternative options with linux, but more often than not something seems to 
> work.
>
> All the best Aaron.
>
> Nigel.
>

In addition to uninstalling totem-xine-mozplugin I followed Greg Gulik's
advice at http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php#rplayer

The only problem now is that mplayerplug-in-rm.so has to be removed each
time mplayer's updated.

HTH,

Michael





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