[7077] in Release_7.7_team
Re: realplayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Nov 24 14:31:19 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" <release-team@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 09:14 -0500, Robert Basch wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> It looks like xine does not include the Real codecs (apparently requiring
> that they be installed separately). We can discuss how we want to resolve
> this in the release, but in the meantime, you can either disable the xine
> plugin in firefox entirely (in Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins), or change the
> action for the particular mime type (e.g. Real Audio document) in Edit ->
> Preferences -> Applications, and tell it to use /usr/bin/realplay instead;
> /usr/bin/vlc should also work.
Hi Bob,
Thanks- I know how to make it work. I'm more concerned with making it
work by default for random Athena users-
A.
