[20038] in Athena Bugs
Re: RealPlayer plugin on Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Dec 3 12:52:10 2001
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:52:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: <bug-infoagents@mit.edu>
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1. Which Linux platform is this?
2. Does realplay work in standalone mode for that platform
(run /mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/realplayer7/realplay)
We have had two persistent problems with realplayer for Linux.
One is getting the right versions for the right platforms - Real tends to
provide only one (unlabeled) "Linux" version at a time. The other is
getting the plugin to work even with a version of realplay that is
actually a symlink elsewhere. The questions above will help me tell which
this is.
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We had a case at OLC today where someone was trying to use the
> RealPlayer plugin on Linux, and it wasn't working. He kept getting the
> "Here's how to get this plugin" message from netscape.
>
> I tried this with paco's account, doing the following:
>
> rm .mailcap
> rm .mime.types
> rm -rf .netscape
> add -f infoagents
> netscpae &
>
> and, sure enough, RealPlayer does not show up in the plugins list.
> This was a phone conversation, so there's no discuss meeting, however
> there was discussion on -c consult from about 5:30PM-5:45PM on 11/30.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
> --------
> Jonathan Reed
> jdreed@mit.edu
>
