I decided to put this here in the general forum since it is more of a rant than anything else but here goes.

I have mplayer and the plugins and codecs all installed and recognized by Mozilla-1.6 and everything is working perfectly but of course I can't leave something half done. I usually visit www.gamespot..com (additional period cuz I'm not here to promote the site) for my video game reviews and videos because they stream them and they are just the right size, IMHO. Well one of the options when you watch videos at this site is your choice to have them played in WMA format or RealOne format. Now the mplayer plug-in works fine for the windows media format, the only thing is there is no real border on the video like most video players have so I thought I would give the RealOne option a try.

So I find Realplayer 8 (last version that I found that is supposed to work with linux) and download the .bin file and install it, all goes well so far. I can open realplayer from a terminal by typing "realplay" and open and watch/listen to files fine. So I insert the rpnp.so file into my mozilla/plugins folder and re-open mozilla and sure enough it detects and lists the realplayer plugin. So I go back to gamespot and select a video and all I get is a "General Error Fault" error message and nothing plays. So I go searching and stumble upon a forum on the net at some off the wall website (found through google) and someone mentioned having to rename a file from xxxx.so.6 to xxxx.so and it worked. So I go looking through the Realplayer8 directory and notice there are about 15 files that end in .so.6, I go through and rename each one to xxx.so and stick them in the mozilla/plugins directory. I closed mozilla and reopened it and went back to gamespot and it all works fine now.

Sorry for the lengthy rant but this just got on my nerves, first lack of linux support and the measures needed to be taken to get it to work, however if you want to use RealPlayer on Windows they will cater to you to no end. Don't believe me?? Just head over to the official forums at their site, one of the forum mods that self proclaims to be a developer at RealOne for the player even went as far to comment how RealOne used the extension .rpm first and their use far outweighs any significance the .rpm extension has in the linux (he actually said Red Hat) community.

Go figure.

rberry88

Sorry, I thought I got it in just general. My bad.

rberry88

http://www.macewan.org/gamespot.png

videos work fine

Like I said toward the end of my post, I did get it working just fine. The point of my rant was the steps I had to take to get it working. Other than just wanting a more complete feel to my system there was really no other reason for doing it and believe me, if I had know it was going to be that tedious I would have just left it uninstalled. Mplayer and XMMS cleary have it beat by leaps and bounds.

rberry88

realone - realplayer9 works just fine.....

good rant. i really hate that program. everythings always a mission ya shouldn't have to go through that much shit when ya only wanna watch a video.

Its too bloated, and so many sites love to have their formats in .ram

Its llike opening a bloaty pdf viewer to view pdf files, except much much worse.

anybody know any programs to convert real player video files into avi or mpeg?

I remember, when trying to open streams, that I'd have to open Realplayer, then open the stream from within there, rather than using the embedded version in the browser.

everythign in the wrold can be solved with mplayer... http://mplayerhq.hu plays realmedia, reencodes to avi....

lol mplayer is a bity hard to instal tho (once i actualy get some vids to paly on my laptop i can try to reinstall it better, bui t just as future refrnce, does anyone know how to install the extralite package (the all in 1 libarys to play real, qucik tiem windows meda...), i mean theere no comile script (screams cuse hes never seen a package that when was untared had no Makefile or source, or even a configure script, after he installed linux that is, must use binary distro so it can work ), neways, i dont see what teh big deal with that mod was, .rpm in linux or in realplayer are too very difrent filetypes (i use worker as my file manager and it can detect filetrypes by having you input 3 files of the same type and itll compare the headers and store it, so itll easly show .rpm (redhat,) as a (whatever name you gave it, like redhad or just rpm) and .rpm (realplayer) as whatever name you gave it, like realplayer meida or whatnot , i never used anyother file manager in linux, but if tehy dont suport this nifty feature, i think they should concider adding it

acid_kewpie: your home page mentions that you made a program for ripping DVD to video. using the mplayer and menc (or somthing sorry)
does the acid program only make use of already installed parts of mplayer?
could i use that to re-encode .rm files?


have fun.
Ben.

I never liked realplayer cuz when you install the windows version it would install spyware along with it.

no it can't do that, it's specifically designed to encode from dvd to divx. sorry.