[7068] in Release_7.7_team
Re: realplayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Nov 22 14:05:41 2010
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, alexp@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <83D6EE0C-5470-4CB9-AC9C-D326814AB762@mit.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO8859-1"
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:05:31 -0500
Message-ID: <1290452731.648.16.camel@dit>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 19:36 -0500, Robert Basch wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I just tried the infoagents locker version of the realplayer application on
> a couple of 64-bit machines, and it seemed to run OK (it did complain about
> a wrong ELF class loading /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so). Can you
> please provide more info about the problems you and the user who reported
> the problem have encountered? Does the problem only occur when trying to
> use a plugin from firefox? I tried clicking on a Real Video link on a
> machine in our test cluster, and found that firefox was loading the xine
> plugin, not realplayer, and the xine plugin seemed to hang. Are you seeing
> a different problem? (I have not tried configuring firefox to use the
> realplayer plugin, nor have I tried the xine plugin on a 32-bit machine).
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> > Re request for debathena realplayer discussed at last Release Team
> > meeting:
> >
> > The infoagents locker version doesn't seem to work on 64 bit machines. I
> > was able to test-install and get it working on a 64 bit machine from the
> > mediubuntu install (32 bit but stated to be 64 bit compatible) described
> > at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealPlayerInstallationMethods
> >
> > Alex
Hi Bob,
It looks like you're right- I misspoke. I must have had something set up
wrong when I tried it. I also got the xine plugin invocation which
fails. Can we reset the default application for Real mime types to
realplay?
Thanks,
Aexl
