reaplay and mplay/mplugin....

[myfreebsd at cox.net]

Gary,

I am sorry I misread your email. I haven't really tried too much to have streaming audio through the browser (Although I don't see how this would be different). My problem with Realplayer is that I could get sound but no video. mplayerplug-in is still under development so I am sure they will get it worked out eventually. In the meantime, I would checkout plugger. It doesn't try to haddle the stream itself put hands it off to other apps such as mplayer or xine. Might  work better for you. I am actaully going to give it a go tonight.

David
> 
> From: Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> Date: 2005/11/21 Mon PM 12:44:29 EST
> To: myfreebsd at cox.net
> CC: kline at tao.thought.org,  freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: reaplay and mplay/mplugin....
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:39:50AM -0500, myfreebsd at cox.net wrote:
> > >I'd be pleased to use just one audio app  that does >everything:
> > >	mp3, mp4/aacplus, realplay streams, or windows.  >What do I
> > >	need to do to enable this?   Should I pkg_delete my >real/helix
> > >	port?  Is having both realplay and >mplayer/mplayerplugin causing 
> > >	the confusion?   Any ideas?
> > 
> > Gary,
> > 
> > mplayerplug-in does play real video up to version 9 I believe (may have changed recently). It is not very stable and will crash firefox if you try to leave the page the stream is playing in (including closing firefox). 
> 
> 
> 	So that's why firefox disappeared last night.  ... .
> 
> > I could not get realplayer plugin to work so I suffer through this limitation. To enable it, follow these steps
> 
> 	I found the real=0/=1 tag in the mplayerplug-in.conf so I
> 	understand *that's* why mplayerplugin fires up after I've 
> 	tried to listen to a streaming Windoze site.  It seriously 
> 	torques me when mplayerplugin works only One time; then 
> 	it quits.  It switches to "Stop" and I'm left banging my
> 	head against the CRT :-|  
> 
> 	It would be great if one audio player would play real, mp3,
> 	mp4, and xwa.... but somebody must be conspiring to drive 
> 	me even further over the edge---wait, too late, I've already
> 	gone over, waaaay over.
> 
> 
> > 1. Either rm or rename /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix.so and .xpt or
> > edit the /etc/libmap.conf file and comment out the section about realplayer (this is what I have done)
> 
> 	Ok, I never thought of touching libmap.conf.  It'd be simpler
> 	than mv'ing files....
> 
> > 2. edit /usr/X11R6/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf and change the line that says #enable-real=0 to 1.
> > 3. Restart mozilla/firefox and real video will now play in mplayerplug-in.
> > 
> > Hope this is what you were looking for. I don't think there is any other video plugin that will play all that. You might have a look at plugger.
> > 
> 	Thanks for your help.  I'm looking for either one app/plugin that
> 	will do "everything" or multiple plugins that will play different
> 	streams.  ....   Gotta print out your mail...
> 
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 
> 	PS to the list: if anybody eles has any input, please join in.
> 
> 
> > David
> > 
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