Realplayer Plugin for Firefox
 

Hi all,

I just installed the MPlayer Plugin for firefox. I found a problem that it sometimes

caused Firefox to crash without any warning. So, I would like to try other plugin

for Firefox. I have seen that, Realplayer (I have Realplayer 10 installed) also

provides Plugin for Firefox.

Does anyone know how to install it ?

Could you please to post me a link if there is already a "Howto" for installing it.


And, for anyone using Realplayer 10 plugin, have you found any crashing in

Firefox ??

Thank you in advance, ;)

Alez

:newbie:

I copied nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt to my mozilla plugins directory. I use realplay10 for Linux and it doesn't crash.

Thank you aikempshall,

As I checked in the directory "/mozilla-firefox/plugins",

I already have two symlinks, which are:

nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt, that point to the

corresponding files in the Realplayer folder.

But .. when I went to some movie websites, Firefox

said that it could not find any plugin ???

I've seen in the Mozilla plugins website that I should

add a symlink point to "realplay" in the PATH, but I

don't know how to do this (see, don't expect

anything from a newbie :P)

What did you do for this symlink in PATH ?

Anyway, thank you again for your help,

Alez

If you install realplayer as root, the main installation directory is likely to be /usr/local/RealPlayer, so

cd /usr/local/bin

ln -s ../RealPlayer/realplay

Thank you T. Hsu,

But .. how can I put the symlink to PATH ??

Normally PATH contains /usr/local/bin, so the above procedure already puts the symlink to PATH.

Thank you T. Hsu, I will try again :)

Hi, I´ve followed the instructions for installing realplayer. However, I´m still not able to run it in Mozilla firefox. Can you specify the symbolic link a little clearer please coz this is what I have got typing in the command...

In-s: command not found.

Thanks!!

Not In but ln(short for link)

Don't you need a space between ln -s?

Hi, I´d just like to be a little descriptive here.

1. I have Mozilla Firefox v 1.0.2

2. I have installed the RPM file from the real website.

3. Ran the following commands cd /usr/local/bin

ln -s ../RealPlayer/realplay

4. the xphelix point correctly as well.

What do I do? How do I do a diagnosis of what is wrong? And more importanlty any tips on how to fix it? Coz I´m a total newbie but have decided that I will switch to Linux despite all these migration issues

If you installed firefox with an rpm try uninstalling and using the firefox on there website

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Same with Realplayer/Helixplayer

https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/

install all in /usr/local and everything should work right!

Ohh and delete the mozilla folder in your /home/user folder before running your fresh install of firefox

Type about:plugins in address bar, is Helix DNA Plugin listed in it? Also type realplay under command line to see if it launches RealPlayer? If above are all ok, go to this page, can you see an embedded RealPlayer?

http://cf.unc.edu/skillstest/take/realplayer.htm

I agree with T.Hsu.

Try to start realplay from the command line. Don't expect the welcome message as stated in the skillstest page, instead try a music or sound clip.

If that works try this url http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ then try listening to the radio station of your choice.

What happens? I'm particularly interested in what the left part of the page looks like, the bit under the psuedo tab titled "BBC Radio Player", It should have a play/pause button on the left and a volume control on the right. If it plays it will say immediately below the play/pause button "playing at 43kbps" or something similar.

If still no sound and no indication that the station is playing, click on "Listen using stand-alone RealPlayer". What happens?

If no sound but it appears to be playing and if you use kde disable the sound system in the control centre. What happens?

If no sound but it appears to be playing can you control the volume? If not keep the radio station playing and start realplayer and adjust the volume. Any sound?