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Re: realplayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Wed Nov 24 18:08:00 2010
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:07:52 -0500
Cc: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Hi Alex,
My preference is to avoid making realplay the default, if possible, as
that would mean modifying /etc/gnome/defaults.list (which sets totem, the
GNOME movie player, as the default) as well as adding another dependency
on Realplayer to the release.
It looks like we could improve things by 1) removing xine-plugin (from
thirdparty-graphics), and 2) installing some additional gstreamer0.10
packages so that totem can play Real video content. We can also document
how users can specify a different application.
Thanks,
Bob
On Nov 24, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> 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.
>
