Re: unwanted kaffeine starting when starting (BBC) real audio stream

From: AC (aec$news_at_candt.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:04:22 +0000

In article <3212f9F3fcoobU1@individual.net>, Mark Hellman
<markhellman@techie.com> writes
>AC wrote:
>
>> Using Firefox browser (1.0) on suse 9.1 and aiming to listen to the BBC
>> radio stream, I find that kaffeine keeps starting up. It does not seem
>> to play real audio streams, and I am having some other probs too, but
>> since kaffiene does not work for this I guess I have to sort this out
>> first.
>
>You have two solutions for that:
>
>1. You upgrade Kaffeine and the Xine libs and install the Windows binary
> codecs. *Everything* is available from:
> http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=cat&cat=1
> It takes a while to download all the necessary packages to resolve the
> dependencies but, after everything is installed, you will be able to play
> almost all formats and codecs (including DVDs). Remember, everything you
> need is on the above site. Just choose the right packages for your SuSE
> version.
>
>2. Download the latest Real Player:
> http://www.real.com/linux/?rppr=cartalk.com&src=040104freeplayer
> and test if the Real Player plugin shows up in Firefox's list of
> plugins by typing in the address bar:
> about:plugins
> A problem that may happen is that both Real Player and Kaffeine plugin
> is installed, and the latter is chosen to play Real streams. That is
> not desirable. I usually delete the Kaffeine plugin, typically in:
> /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins
>
>With some graphic chips, Real Player 10 performs worse than version 8. If
>that happens to you, uninstall RP10, and install the version that comes
>with SuSE.
>Mark

Thanks Mark. the packman site looks very useful, I am sure to be using
it in future, not quite experienced yet though. Just now I start to
glaze over with awe when yast lists dependencies!

Looks like I should get rid of kaffiene first anyway.

With two competing plugins - what allows one to be chosen before the
other? 

-- 
AC

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