When I bring up the pop-up window, the embedded player appears for a few seconds, then the controls grey out.
I'm using Real Player 10 Gold, as downloaded from real.com, in Firefox 2.0.0.3. I'm trying to watch video on the BBC site. I've got Real Player installed in/usr/local/bin/RealPlayer,and a which reaplay shows it as /usr/bin/realplay. I've copied the nphelix* files into the directories specified in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealplayerInstallationMethods,
the about
:config bit is set to true, but I don't have the symlink set. My $PATH is
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
so I'm thinking it shouldn't need it. I'm not using MPlayer, which wasn't really working for me on that site, anyway.
I've set the relevant mimetypes in KControl to choose Real Player first.
One curious thing: when I bring up Edit-->Preferences-->Manage, no Real Player data show up, even though about
: plugins says
Quote:
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
File name: /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.622 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Jul 18 2006
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes
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I'm at a loss. Can anyone lend a hand?
Thanks!