Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
>
> > Donald Spoon wrote:
> >
> > > Kent West wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as 
> > > > a plugin for Mozilla.
> > >
> > > In the RealPlayer8 window select "Help"-->"Mime Type/Plugin Install" 
> > > and follow the directions there.
> >
> >
> >
> > I did that, which was a repeat of part of the original installation 
> > of rp8. Made no difference.
> >
> > > I also have the "mozplugger" app installed.  Dunno if it is needed 
> > > or not, since I don't use RealPlayer all that much.   I can get 
> > > RealPlayer to come up on the above site OK here.
> >
> >
> >
> > Installed that, which made no difference. Now when I click on "about: 
> > plugins" I see a new group "MozPlugger 1.3.0" that has a lot of 
> > different "helper applications", but Real is not mentioned among them.

I exitted Mozilla, renamed the ~/.mozilla directory, restarted Moz, and 
now RealPlayer plugin works. Must've been something in my prefs file or 
something.

Thanks!

--
Kent