error message from real player when streaming video
 

i get this error message when i try to stream a video


could not find appropriate hxplay or realplay om system path to use as an embedded player

i am using mozilla


any suggestions?

Did you try what the message suggest you to do? -Often it is as easy as that! -Link 'realplay' to your system path. I.e:

You should also have a link from their plugin within the mozilla plugins directory (if not yet):

i typed in

ln -s /[home/rob]/realplay /usr/bin/

as root user then i when i typed in



ln -s /home/rob/realplayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so

i get this message

ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory

whats going wrong?

From this i guess, your Realplayer-path is: /home/rob/realplay ? -If so, then go there and you should see the executable file 'realplay', right? You have to link this file to a directory of your PATH environment variable ('/usr/bin/' is common for this). I guess what you have done so far is linking the 'realplay'-directory(!) to '/usr/bin'. So go to '/usr/bin' an look if there is a directory named 'realplay' - delete that! Now again (supposed, that that '/home/rob/realplay' is your Realplayer-directory):

The other thing:
I don't think that you have typed that. This error comes up, when you give 'ln' more then one "link source" and the last argument is not a directory. -So i guess there was a ' '(space) too much in whatever you typed. Make sure that there is no such space within any of the to paths or, if needed, put them in quotations or lead the space with a backslash ('\'); but from what you gave me, there should be no space in any of the paths.

ok i did all that but when i type in

ln -s /home/rob/realplayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so

it says


ln: `/home/rob/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so': File exists

whats going on?

This does only mean, that the link already exists. If the link points to the correct file (check it) then this is not bad, but exactly what you want(you cannot create the same link twice). Did you try if the plugin already words?