On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 21:57:21 Gary Kline wrote:
> > I'm still building my backup DNS server on my remaining Kayak
> > playing with various window managers (aka "desktops"). Stuck.
> > To any browser/media/audio wizards out there in freebsd-land:
> >
> > A few weeks ago (after failing with both mozilla and firefox)
> > I tried the KDE broswer to stream video. And after several
> > tries, got kmplayer working with Konqueror. It streams windows
> > video and better yet, streams windows audio (using the Mplayer
> > backend). But there are some NPR/PBS webcasts only in
> > real-audio. After a few hours of poking around the web and
> > trying to reconfigure Konqueror I-give-up.
> >
> > I've reached the "File Association" -> "Audio" and to
> > "x-pn-realplay" {or something like that}, then I'm wedged.
> > Is there an honest textfile I can use to associate [.ra, .rm,
> > .ram] with /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay????
> >
> > thanks for any help!
> >
> >
> > gary
>
> First, you need to confirm that you can play Real in kmplayer. You must have
> the win32 codecs. Fast forward and such in a Real stream will be a bitch. But
> it plays. Then you want to go through the mime types in konqueror's config
> and set kmplayer to the first app to play such types with. And for embedding
> (the other tab) set the kmplayer_part or whatsitcalled as the first or only.
Yeah, I finally finally clicked on the Other tab. But then what?
Where are the mimetypes and config for konqueror??
>
> Mime types would include/have: vn-realmedia, rm, ra, ram, rv, smil,
> vn-realaudio vn-realvideo, x-pn-realaudio, and several other older ones. If
> you don't find them all at first you'll find them when encountering a oddly
> mime-ified stream that wont play.
>
I do have a ~/.mimetypes file on this server. Maybe I'll
just scp it over and see.
> There's another way to have Real with konqueror, and that is with the plugin
> that comes with the realplayer port. It may have poor layout in the webpage
> but at least it does support moving back and forth in the stream. To make
> this work you use the linuxpluginwrapper port and an appropriate libmap.conf.
Well getting the plugin is a no-brainer; same with the
linuxwrapper/plugin port; but the libmap.cnf is another matter!
Do you have one to send? Or anyone else on-list?
>
> Both work reasonably well, or equally bad depending on the tilting of the
> earth and the humidity on the moon :) I usually prefer kmplayer because it
> can be used as a general a/v plugin replacement in konqueror and if something
> with Real doesn't work I can always try to "Open with.." realplayer instead.
:-)
I do the open-with and it starts to work/tries to, then hangs.
I'd just like to be able to watch the BBC/PBS stuff and listen to
Windose or Real streams without too much hassle!
>
> HTH,
So far, so good, thankee!
gary
>
> Dan
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