[26873] in Athena Bugs
Re: realplayer plugin version
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Tue Jun 27 19:29:44 2006
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:29:19 -0400
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On Jun 27, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Erica H Peterson wrote:
> (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/) requires
> RealPlayer 10. While this version is installed on Athena, the
> RealPlayer plugin (necessary for viewing embedded content) is still
> version 7:
>
> athena% ls -l /mit/infoagents/mozilla/plugins/rp*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7919 mit 52 Aug 30 2002 /mit/
> infoagents/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so -> /mit/infoagents/arch/
> i386_linux3/realplayer7/rpnp.so
This is actually an old plugin path, which is not included in
the current Athena browser wrappers; if I recall correctly, we
dropped the Realplayer plugin from the path some time ago,
because it had problems.
> Can the plugin be upgraded to version 10?
We will consider adding it back to the standard plugin path;
in the meantime, a workaround is to set the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
environment variable accordingly, e.g.:
add infoagents
setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/realplayer10/mozilla
firefox &
Note that the realplay binary needs to be in the PATH, so the
infoagents locker must be added, not merely attached. Also,
realplay seems to be verbose when invoked this way, so the
user may want to redirect output to /dev/null when running the
browser from the command line.
Thanks for reporting this.
Bob
