[20039] in Athena Bugs
Re: RealPlayer plugin on Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Dec 3 14:12:46 2001
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:12:31 -0500
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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I believe the user was using the current release of Linux-Athena. I
personally tested this on Linux-Athena, version 9.0.x (whatever the
current release was on Friday - I think 9.0.19). I don't have an
Athena-Linux box at my disposal at the moment to test whether
realplayer works in standalone mode, but I can test that this
afternoon and get back to you.
-Jon
At 12:52 PM -0500 on 12/3/01, you wrote:
>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
> >
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