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?

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the help. I´ve tried a few things... First is re-installing Mozilla Firefox. Now, for a person like me, I followed these instructions on the release notes of v 1.5 on the mozilla site... which were:

Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Firefox:
tar -xzvf firefox-1.5.tar.gz
This will create a firefox subdirectory of that directory.

Done that! But how do I run firefox? I´ve installed it in usr/local... But I´ve no idea which file is the linux equivalent of the .exe file! There is one mozilla.bin file, but when I run that, nothing happens... double click and nothing happens...

So, I need like really simple instructions on:

1. How to install the firefox files from the tar.gz file that I have downloades from mozilla.com
2. Create a desktop short cut for as well as some link on the GUI (mandrake 10.1)

Thanks again for all your help! Sorry for being so duh!

JJ

Right click on desktop create new then link to application. From there click the Application tab and in work path add usr/local/firefox/firefox the rest you can leave empty. If you go back to the general tab you can name it and choose an icon then click ok that should put a icon on your desktop.

Wee RealPlayer is working for me!!!
 

Wee RealPlayer is working for me!!!

Wee RealPlayer is working for me!!!

I can tell you

Sorry I must send 5 postes to can write links in my reply!!! ;)

Sorry I must send 5 postes to can write links in my reply!!! :)

Wee!! RealPlayer is working for me!!!!
 

Hi guys,

I tried uninstalling and re-installing... I get this message when I try to install firefox: (this happens even when I´m logged on as root)

[jacob@host-137-205-71-211 firefox]$ ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[jacob@host-137-205-71-211 firefox]$

Therefore, what do I do now? completely lost... and completely confused!!

JJ

try opening just firefox and not firefox-bin run as root first then normal user. If it still doesn't work then your in the wrong directory.

jacobjohn where did you install firefox. I have mine in /usr/local/firefox so I would in root "cd /usr/local/firefox" then "./firfox" to run the shell script in that directory.

Has JacobJohn just installed the source code?