Re: How do I listen to radio?
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:28, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> > > > I can listen to it by just clicking on the "listen" link at
> > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2, using the realplayer package; this is
> > > > not standard Debian, but you can get it if you put in
> > > > /etc/apt/sources.list
> > >
> > > I click on the "listen" link and nothng happens. The embedded player
> > > says "stopped" and the standalone just sits there. I have Realplayer
> > > 10:
> > >
> > > realplayer:
> > > Installed: 10.0.8-0.1
> > > Candidate: 10.0.8-0.1
> >
> > Let me know how you get on, sorry if you already know about the install
> > stuff above, and for the analogue/digital rambling, which probably
> > doesn't apply.
Ed says.
> OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up
> in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at
> CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPlayer works fine. Well,
> not the Amazon realplayer samples - says their codecs are too old. I use
> xine for windoze media files - works fine. Oh well, as the old Indian in
> "Little Big Man" said - "Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it
> doesn't".
This is really weird. The fact that some sites work with realplayer makes it
even weirder. I tried the C-SPAN site, click on use realplayer, and Iceweasel
asks what I want to open it with, and realplayer 10 is there waiting for me
to click on it, then it dl's the ram file, and the standalone version of
realplayer opens, then the audio starts to flow. Where are you on the planet?
You're not being blocked from listening to some stuff perhaps. Saying that
though, probably site access would be totally blocked.
Cookies are allowed in Iceweasel, just in case it's a cookies problem?
Just to recap. You removed the realplayer version from debian-multimedia. Then
installed RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from real.com.
I made a slight error in not telling you to su to root before running the
binary, but presuming you picked that up, you now have it installed
in /usr/local/RealPlayer.
Check the links for nphelix.so , and .xpt , and make sure they are pointing
to /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so , and .xpt
Look in /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat . This will show the path
for the nphelix plugin. You can safely delete, or rename this file, and when
you next start Iceweasel, and run about:plugins it will be recreated.
IIRC the only real problem I had in the past was when I installed realplayer
in my /home/user directory, rather than in /usr/local, and I don't think it
would work from there.
I'm just thinking that if you have done the same, and havn't removed the
realplayer version installed from Debian-multimedia, the one in
your /home/user directory may not be accessable, and Iceweasel is still using
the Debian-multimedia version. I have no idea, as I only use realplayer for
the BBC site, but it could be that the Debian-multimedia version will work
with some sites, but not others.
As you can see I'm clutching at straws here, while pulling hair, or what's
left of it out at the same time.
I don't think you said when you first posted, but was the Debian-multimedia
version of realplayer working with sites other than the BBC, and C-SPAN then?
Over to you for feedback Ed.
Nigel.
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