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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".
The content you are trying to play uses an audio codec that is obsolete and no longer supported. Please contact the content provider about using a supported codec.
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 !
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.
Originally posted by craigevil 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.
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?
Originally posted by muddywaters 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.
1. Install RealPlayer 10.
2. Copy nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory.
3. Make sure a symbolic link to the realplay script is in your PATH.
Note: If you installed the RealPlayer 10 RPM, these files are located in /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla.
Important! Installing RealPlayer 10 will not uninstall RealPlayer 8 if it is on your system. If you have both RealPlayer 8 and RealPlayer 10 on your system, remove the RealPlayer 8 browser plugin (rpnp.so) from your Mozilla plugins directory. You may experience problems using the RealPlayer plugin if you do not do this.
Originally posted by craigevil Sounds like the plugins for Mozilla?firefox did not install, you need to do so manually.
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!
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.
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