Good review article! At least he got his RealPlayer 10 to work.

I like it and use it a lot now. The only problem i have is that on Slack it crashes my browsers if I try to watch one "rm" file after another. i don't have this problem on Fedora Core 2 so I wonder what the problem is.

Does this mean I can listen to live radio at www.xfm.co.uk? Before it told be my OS was unsupported...

Download and give it a try. It's REALLY easy to install. Now getting it to work with your browser is another story...

Actually, I thought it needed real, but its application/x-mplayer2, which is wmp apparently. Any ideas as to how I can play it?

I've installed the RealPlayer10 RPM package on Suse 9.1 system. When I click on a video or music file on the Real site KDE asks if I want to open in Kaffeine or download. I have gone into the KDE Control Center to try to select RealPlayer in lieu of Kaffeine but can't figure out how to do it. I can down load the files then right click to open up in Real Player. Can anyone help me set KDE up so I can launch without having to download?

In response to Micro420's question, this is how I did it and it works just fine.
1. Install the package from Helix
2. In the installation directory find the files "nphelix.so" and "nphelix.xpt"
3. copy both files to your /home/<your_directory>/.mozilla/plugins
4. Go to firefox and in the address line type: "aboutlugins"
You should see the plugin is now available.

From there on when you go to websites that have movies it plays them in the browser.

Hope this helps.

If that's the case, it sounds like it's a plug-in issue with your browser. YOu have to tell it to open with Real Player, or Mplayer, or Xine, or whatever program you use.

I can think of two things:

1) it could be a browser plugin issue where you have to tell your web browser to open the media links with Real Player 10. Or, depending on your browser (assuming you're using Firefox), you can tell what actions to use in the preference option.

2) To get programs to open by default in KDE, I usually click on the file, go to Edit File Types ... Then click ADD, then type in the program and path of where the program is. Click okay, then APPLY, then close the window. Then when you click on the file with the known extension, it will open with what you told KDE to open it with.

hope this helps

Thanks. I haven't figured out how to get to revise the Mozilla plug in to have it recognize real audio files (shows type as Real Audio but only offers to open in Kaffeine). But by going in to file type and moving Real Player 10 up above Kaffeine I can click on the file if I named it with .ra or .ram and it plays.

does anyone have another link I can get the .rpm? Im trying from the real.com website but Im getting an error... cannot open directory.

are you trying with a linux box?

The link on real.com/linux is currently down. You can now grab it from https://player.helixcommunity.org/?from=forms