Re: RealPlayer 10 in FC6: Sound, But No Picture

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:34 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Saturday 13 January 2007 17:23, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:

Just installed RealPlayer 10. No dependencies detected. Setup Assistant
ran through. But when I go to play a video, the mplayer-plugin wants to
load, and of course it chokes. But more than that:

When I download a "test video" from Real.com, I get sound, but no picture.

When I go to play certain videos (specifically at foxnews.com), again I
get sound, but no picture.

On a hunch, I removed totem--completely. It was never doing anything for
me anyway. (That's right--I never did get totem to play /any/ of my
DVD's, and I have gnome-cd to play audio cd's.)

That removed a lot of useless plugins. But it still didn't solve the
problem of my not being able to play RealAudio or RealVideo content. Again:

Download response: Sound, but no picture. Should have picture and sound.

Site-visit response: Either sound, but no picture, or else mplayer tries
to load, and then stops. (Mplayer will play other plug-in videos, so
long as they're not too big. I tested that at apple.com's movie trailer
site.)

What hidden dependency have I missed?

Temlakos

It may be worth checking the Mplayerplugins. There are loads of them,
including one ending in .rm, which is the realmedia one, and is an earlier
version of realplayer.

I'm still using FC2, and Mplayerplugins arn't automatically set up in Firefox.
I have to link to the ones I want to use. I have realplayer10GOLD.bin
installed, and can see video output, but because I'm on dialup it's
continually buffering because of lack of bandwidth.

I'd suggest removing Mplayerplugins realmedia plugin, then reopen Firefox,
type "about:plugins" (without the double quotes), and see which plugins are
showing. You should see just one for realplayer10GOLD. Then try the site
again.

Nigel.

I just tried it in FC4 and it did not work for me. Nothing I do can get
an audio stream from www.npr.org, let us say to be opened by realplay
rather than mplayer and mplayer will not play the stream. If I send the
stream directly to realplay it plays.

Further I have never been able to affect the display of about:plugins in
firefox. It still says that it will use RealPlayer 9 even though it is
RealPlayer10 which is installed. I have made it work at times with other
systems where when I first go to the audio stream it asks me whether I
want to use RealPlayer of Windows Media Player. But on this machine I am
not asked and it just does not work.
Any advice?
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