Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.
On April 17 2007 02:06, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:32:53 -0400
>
> Ed Jabbour <ejbr@comcast.net> 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.
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>
> Just got MPlayer to play the Real Video sites you mentioned (CSPAN
> and BBC) under AMD64 Etch! I would suggest you try it. There some
> instructions here:
>
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/04/install-multimedia-codecs-libdv
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Thanks to everybody who commented. OK, I purged Realplayer, and for
good measure, removed Firefox in case there was some misconfiguration.
Upon a clean reinstall, I brought down mplayer and the plug-in.
Removed Totem and whatever else I could think of that Firefox might
call. Then, off to CSPAN and the BBC. Nada. On the BBC plugin,
mplayer tries to connect to any one of about three servers, evidently
can't, and then just stops. Same on the standalone. At
crooksandliars.com, though, both the download and the play options
work.
So, I guess the problem wasn't Realplayer at all. It must be something
in the browser.
>
> I'm presuming you're using an X86 version of Debian as Realplayer for
> Linux has only been released for X86 Linux.
Indeed. Realplayer was 10.0.8-0.1 from debian-multimedia , and libc6
2.3.6.ds1-13.
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