what is it with realplayer under linux ?????
 

When you dig round amazon, and think you've found the disc/track you're looking for; you can often download a clip/sample. Which is supposed to by playable by realplayer.

Now I've got realplayer 10 installed, but whenever I try to play the file it usually gives me a crap error of trying to use an obsolete codec.

the file was called "hurl.exe" and it seems to be refering to something with a .ra or .ram extension.

I normally have no problems with audio (cd's and digital files - most of my files have been ripped as FLAC), but I'll stuck with getting realplayer to play, what I understand are "real player files".

Any suggestions please???

regards

John

p.s. the distro is gentoo 2005.1 if that helps!

Post a link to the site you are having troubles with. Also What browser are you using?

I use Real Player and Mplayer to play pretty much everything.

You may need to get the codecs from the mpalyer site. I went with the ALL codecs. MPlayer - The Movie Player

.ra is realplayer's streaming format. It should play online OK.
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?ext...&Submit3=Go%21
Out of curiosity, post a link to .ra file, please.

Is the error that it throws up.

The link to the file is this , the track I was trying to check out is "Radar Love".

When clicked, it downloads the small file called "hurl.exe" as mentioned above, but if you try to open it with RealPlayer 10 it gives the error quoted at the top. I did try to tell it to use the rarender plugin - which I understand is for listening to .ra files.

Hence I'm confused as to how I'm supposed to listen to the clips at amazon with realplayer !

regards

John

Hmm I did not get any weird download hurl.exe the file opened Real Player , loaded Radar Love and played with no problems.

If you are using KDE open your File Associations and make sure anything that refers to realplayer is asscoiated with Real Player. If you are using Firefox open Preferences>Downloads>Plugins and uncheck anything that might be a realplayer file type. The next time you click on a file a Open with dialog box will popup. Browse to realplay and check always.

Well I can't locate anything that seems to refer to realplayer under the file associations and there doesn't seem to be anything in the firefox plugins either.

?????Hum.

Oh and I don't seem to be able to do anything with the tools selection that might make it play the file either.

any further suggestions/ideas much appreciated, as I'm completely stumped on this.

regards

John

I have realplayer 10 and cannot play this file either. Maybe the 'obsolete' part of the error message is true, ie; it only plays with earlier versions of realplayer?

If that was the case then it would play for me, which it does.

Sounds like the plugins for Mozilla?firefox did not install, you need to do so manually.

PluginDoc: Linux (x86),

Hum ? never thought of that!

Had to do a bit of digging though to find the nphelix.so and .xpt so now all I have to do is find where they go i.e. where my mozilla plugins directory is!

regards

John

well I managed to get the real player so it will play/open from firefox, but if I go to try to listen to something as a clip from amazon, I'm still getting that "hurl.exe" file, which shows itself to be a text file with a location - so if I then try to open that location, all i'm still getting is that damn stupid response about it being an obsolete codec.

It must be my setup! I'm sure of it, but for the life of me I can't see whats occuring. I also don't believe that something like amazon would be allowing clips in obsolete/unsupported formats from their site.

Hence I'm still stumped.

Any other ideas ?????

cheers

John

does this help. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=357449