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realplay in feisty - grey plugin with Firefox

Asked by Gavin Hamill

I'm trying to watch RealMedia content from news.bbc.co.uk. Selecting Windows Media works (with restricted extras + all gstreamer bundles installed) but the totem embedded player is slow to start and does not allow seeking.

Fresh feisty install, with RealPlayer 10 pulled from dapper-commercial repo.(I have also tried edgy-commercial)

about:plugins shows only nphelix.so for playing RealMedia (i.e. no mplayer-mozilla or totem)

If I manually run the RealPlayer and paste in the rtsp:// URL of the news video, it plays perfectly. However, if I try to use the embedded player on the BBC site, I see the RealPlayer interface for 1 second, then the blackness turns grey - it is not possible to click anything at this time :(

Erk.

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) said : 		#1

Ah! I tried running firefox from the commandline and look what happens when I open a BBC embedded video!

playeripc: Got command NewStream 0 0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/nb/rm/video/heads_nb.ram audio/x-pn-realaudio 82
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This is a 32-bit install with absolutely no funny business (i.e. no magic ricer scripts run from the forums or elsewhere...)

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#2

The problem is the RealPlayer plugin, I have the same problem, I installed mplayer and mplayer-firefox and I resolve my problems ??? If you don't want it you can try to install Real directly from the Real site using .run file and setup the plugin manually.

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Best Gavin Hamill (gdh) said : 		#3

Yeh I'd like to avoid the mplayer plugin because I need the ability to seek / pause in streams.

Unfortunately the RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from www.real.com/linux has exactly the same issue - I don't hold out much hope for a solution in that case :(

Thanks for the reply, tho' :)

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) said : 		#4

Further to this, I've worked around the problem very satisfactorily by installing the 'mozplugger' package.

This causes any Real content to immediately pop open in an external player window. Not only does this work fine without crashing but also means you can close the firefox window which launched the content! :)

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spicoli775 (spicoli775) said : 		#5

Hi , where can the mozplugger package be found ?

Thanks

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) said : 		#6

It's just in feisty's 'universe' repository.

I don't think you can install it from Applications -> Add/Remove - you need to 'sudo apt-get install mozplugger' or use Synaptic :)

Or just download the .deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/web/mozplugger