Re: [SLUG] News Videos

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 16:06:42 EDT


On Thu May 13 2004 3:24 pm, you wrote:
> I am using Mozilla. How do I tell gnome about the plugins?

gnome-control-center (or gnomecc with RH 8.0?), then click on the "Advanced"
icon, then "File Types and Programs", then "Video" then select the RealAudio/
Video entry and then click "Edit" and the file extension is .rm and the
mimetype is "application/vnd.rn-realmedia" and then browse to point it to
your path to the reaplayer executable (see prior post about where). -Eric

> I am on the Helix website and was going to download the latest and
> greatest from them. Supposed to have all the codex imbedded. Have you
> used this site for realplayer 10?

No, I played around with that awhile ago and the non-community-supported one
(>8) was unstable, so I lost interest, and use the one that comes with the
distro I have, which has been 8 for some time.

> Michael
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 14:33, Eric Jahn wrote:
> > On Thu May 13 2004 2:17 pm, you wrote:
> > > When I click on the space where the video clip is supposed to be
> > > playing, I get a message that says "This page contains information of a
> > > type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) that can only be viewed with the
> > > appropriate Plug-in.
> > > How do I know what plug-in and where do I get it???
> >
> > You don't necessarily need the realplayer plugin for your browser (it
> > just embeds the player in your web page you are viewing as opposed to
> > putting it in its own window). The stand-alone realplayer app works
> > better anyway in my opinion. Just make sure you have the realplayer RPM
> > intalled for RH 8.0 (should be in your install CDs), then configure your
> > file types in either Gnome or KDE or what have you so that
> > audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin is handled by realplayer, giving it the path
> > to your executable. You may also need to specifically tell your browser
> > that audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugins are handled by realplayer as well as
> > telling your Desktop Manager. Which browser are you using with RH 8?
> >
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