Streaming audio & mplayer plugin

claudius753 · 06-07-2004, 07:03 AM

I have istalled Mplayer and all the GUI stuff and the plugin for mozilla.

I am trying to play streaming audio files (specifically from amazon.com)

Whenever i click on a link, i go to a new page where in all text it says 'mplayer-plugin' and some stuff about 'cache fill' and the number fr cache fill will continually go up.

Sometimes, the media will eventually play, but i have no control over starting and stopping and if i hit the back button to go back to the page i was on mozilla closes.

Is there any way to get mplayer to launch externally to play the file? Or something that would better suit my needs for mozilla + streaming audio?

mrtokyo · 06-07-2004, 07:15 AM

kaffeine does all the mozilla integration and it shows controls for the media too:

http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/

it uses xine not mplayer, in my experience xine is slower so i don't know what suits you best.

claudius753 · 06-07-2004, 07:36 AM

Well i got kaffeine and it goes to open it but all i hear is static.

mrtokyo · 06-07-2004, 08:32 AM

taken from the xine faq page: http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq

Quote:

Real Network files/streams
Can I watch Real (.rm, .ram) files using xine?

The situation with real files and streams is pretty similar to the situation with Quicktime Streams (see above). The newer real audio and video formats are only supported by using binary-only codecs which are available from real networks but are not included in xine.

One way to get these codecs is to download and install RealPlayer from RealNetworks, for example in /usr/local/RealPlayer8 or /opt/RealPlayer8. If you installed it in one of these places, xine should automatically find and use the real binary codecs. If it doesn't work, try to find out the exact path to where the real codecs are installed on your system (look for a file named rv30.so.6.0 which should reside in a directory called Codecs in the directory where you have installed RealPlayer in) and set codec.real_codecs_path in your xine config file accordingly.