On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:36 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > In the last few days, Realplayer won't play any files in a browser. At > > CSPAN, e.g., neither the embedded videos nor the standalone option will > > run. Realplayer is called, but nothing happens. Video at the BBC also > > will not play, either plugin or standalone. [snip] > > I thought, too, that maybe Realplayer somehow corrupted, so I purged and > > re-installed. Same problem. It's Realplayer 10 Gold installed from > > debian.multimedia. If some library or other is missing, I'd have > > thought that the re-install would have brought it down. > > > > Any advice, pointers, guesses greatly appreciated. > > > > > I've seen this reported on other places. I appears that Realplayer is > broken. Since it's a proprietary piece of software, the only thing that > can be done is wait until they fix it, if they ever decide to. One more > reason not to use proprietary software if you ask me. Could it be the libc v2.5 thing going on? Linux threads are no longer supported... perhaps Real is/was using them. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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