Can anyone watch streaming rm (realplayer) ??

Okay,

i am unable to watch any realplayer media.
Its possible in linux, right?

here's an example:

http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.ph...t_include.html'),escape('video'),escape('pod'

if you know realplayer works for you,
copy and paste this whole link into your firefox.

Does this play for anyone?
The controls are greyout for me, and i just have a blank screen

i have never been able to play anything realplayer = [

when i try and open realplayer directly, i get "the player does not have the capabilities to play back this content."
And thats from just opening the program!! i havent even tried to play anything.
This is realplayer 10.0.1.
it came already loaded with my install.

Does anyone had any ideas?

i dont even know where to begin on this one.

Urm could you wrap it in the url tags, or switch off Automatic parse URL's, also something is definitely missing from the end, at least a close bracket.

edit:

Anyway figured it out I get that, something about missing php ( I think theres something wrong with the site. ) I skipped that and got this error

Requested file not found. The link you followed may be outdated or inaccurate. (http://boss.streamos.com/real/0myl82dZ8*yfKhzfgdoq5m0eDeyVZS86DmZVFycHLkp*ca71MYutZ!IQNFczMSliTi2LDmLC5eysu21wwgVctw==?e=.smi)

hmm,

okay, bad example. = D

how about here:
http://www.nba.com/pistons/

do a "CTRL F" and search for: "256K"

thats another link to another realplayer media at 256 download spead.


Does that play for anyone?

it tries for me, but this is all i see:
http://69.136.139.248/~batman/real.png

i think the problem is on my end...

I think its a problem with the website, coz I can play streams from other sites. You can test your realplayer by goin to bbc news and playing ausio or video clips.

Nada!

i tested with the website you linked:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/#
(CTRL F , and seacrh for "video")


i can "hear" the sounds... which is actually encouraging... but i cant see any video.
check out my screenshot:
http://69.136.139.248/~batman/pope.png


or try any of the 3 videos here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3170452.stm


so, what do you think?
Can you see video?
is there some configuration on my end i need to do?

Those work fine for me. What distro are you using. Try installing a newer version of realplayer from the helixplayer website. Select "nightly", then "RealPlayer Stable".

Why im using NLD, of course = D

i guess that means either 9.1 or 9.2
its on the 2.6 kernel.

maybe it wasnt bundled correcly or something with th install.

How did you get realplayer? Does realplayer come with the suse9 media?

okay, i went here:
http://forms.helixcommunity.org/heli...ealplay-stable
because im running an Intel-based PC, i guess i just go with the first link in the list (i386)?

But which one?
No RPM, so the TAR or the Bin?

or maybe i'll try the RPM anyways.... mwaahahahha

any ideas?

Download the rpm for the one thats labelled as "inux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586@redhat8".

GRRR

okay, it installed.

Now, at least, Realplayer opens up no problems.
with the other version, everytime i opened realplayer it said:
"the player does not have the capabilities to play back this content."

okay, i tried that pope link again here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3170452.stm

but now i get this:
http://69.136.139.248/~batman/real2.png

i think im close... when i check Edit - Preferences - Download - Plugins,
realplayer is not listed as a plugin.....

it should be, right?

Ok, you need to create a symlink from the realplayer mozilla directory to your firefox plugin directory. As root, do the following

#ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/* /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

Make sure that the firefox path matches the one thats on your system, the one above is just an example.

okay,
i figured out that my Firefox plugin directory is at:
/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/

i renamed the plugin directory, reopened firefox, and suddenly the SWF plugin (the only 1 loaded) was gone. i put to folder back, and the Plugin return inside Firefox.
Thus, im ASSUMING that that is the folder (plus i did a: which firefox)


so, you say to run this command?:
#ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/* /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/

but the way im reading it... what's going to be the name of the Symbolic Link?

Arent we trying to add a symbolic link inside the /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ directory?

If you look in the mozilla subdirectory in /usr/local/RealPlayer, you will find that there are two files named nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt. By creating the symlinks in the way that I showed you using wildcards (*), the symlinks are created at the same time saving you from doing it seperately.

What do you mean when you say that you renamed your firefox plugin directory? There was no need to do that, you should have just done as I instructed in my previous post so that any plugins that were already there would remain intact.

Slightly off topic, but the basketball streams nicely in Realplayer embedded in Opera.

For some useful info on Real Player see this BBC Help page.
Note that this is the BBC's audio help page but seems to work for the Video as well.

Good Luck

the whole rename the "plugin" directory was just to verify that firefox was indeed using that directory.
When i renamed the directory, The SWF plugin disappeared, as i expected it would.

renaming it, is the same as deleting it (in this case).
Know what i mean?
Sorry for the confusion.

i ran your command:
ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/* /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/

and it did put those 2 files in there: nphelix.so & nphelix.xpt.

hooray!
i go and reopen firefox, Nada.

i try the link, and now it does this:
http://69.136.139.248/~batman/real3.png

i check Edit - Preferences - Download - Plugins,
and no sign of realplayer:
http://69.136.139.248/~batman/real5.png

doh

Type "about:plugins" in your address bar and press enter. A list of installed plugins will be shown in a webpage. You could try disabling Xvideo if its selected under Tools -> Preferences -> Hardware. Maybe the link to the BBC website will provide you with some useful information coz I don't think I can help any further since I have run out of ideas.