Hello all...

I have searched and haven't found the answer to my specific question. After struggling with installing and getting going RealPlayer (I tried Real Player 8, but found it didn't work AT ALL...but RealOne Alpha (build 9.0.7.151 is working well), I can't seem to get around one problem.

The player works fine when I open files. I am running Red Hat 9 with Mozilla 1.2.1. I did NOT install a specific Plug-in in the Mozilla plugins folder as I can't seem to find the plug-in module. That's OK as I have plugger 4.0 helping to find the applications. When trying a file in Mozilla (streaming), Plugger has no problem calling up RealOne player, however RealOne will NOT continue because it gives a message "you do not have permissions to activate Auto Update feature, see your administrator...." blah blah balh.

Well, I AM the administrator, I'm not TRYING to use any stupid auto-update feature, and I can't find ANYTHING in this version of RealOne in the preferences pertaining to auto-update.

RealOne is installed LOCALLY and owned my ME and has all execute permisions in ALL FILES by the user (me) except for some text files, of course, and I need to find how to get around this problem.

Anyone else heard of this one?

Thanks, in advance....

Without trying to pass the buck on this one, have you tried reporting this through the RealPlayer forum? They have the programmers on their regularly and this may be a bug with a fix.

But no, sorry, I haven't seen this problem. I'm on RP8 or 9.

real are not supporting or developing realone for linux, i doubt they'd be interested in a bug report actually...

personally i'd suggest using mplayer to play real media files (as well as all others) you will need the realone binaries on the system but you don't need to run the player front end. just compile mplayer giviing a specific reference to where the real files are located.

i'd also suggest trying the mplayerplug-in instead of going via plugger, as it's much more upto date.

Thanks, ...I'll look inot mplayer and try some other things. I have looked over the forum at Real and tried to post last night but something went wrong and it didn't go through. I was tired and went to bed.

I'll play with things for a while and see what's up. I have EVERYTHING else working great in my Linux set-up and am VERY happy with it. Aside from a little glitch here and there on set-ups, once things are going, they just keep going, and going, and going....

About the Plugger....it seems to work really well, even if outdated. I'm still not sure how it works, but it seems to DIRECT to the proper plug-ins (kind of like a conductor). My .pdf's open right up in Acrobat like before. But the MPEG playing is fine also. So I'll stay with that for now until I find a better combination of stuff to work.

Thanks again