Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 3:18 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Do you have the mimetypes audio/x-pn-realaudio and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin? I had the first, but not the second, so I tried to add it, but clearly I got it wrong. I guess my question is now the same as Stefano's. Can you tell us exactly what should be in those two entries? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
My helper list is empty, my plugin list is full. And nothing happens when I get to .ra files or others... Simply proposes to download them to the local disk /stefano John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. /stefano Larry Sword wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... --- - 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:58:11 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My helper list is empty, my plugin list is full. And nothing happens when I get to .ra files or others... Simply proposes to download them to the local disk /stefano What does it say when you type about:plugins in the address field? If the xine plugin isn't there, then that's why it isn't working. Make sure you have RealPlayer9 and xine installed. John Drouhard -- Tue Aug 5 14:11:16 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. /stefano Larry Sword wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... --- - 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Tue Aug 5 11:35:34 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:34:34 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will get support for that. I have the rpm's - specifically 0.52 of thw w32codec. But I already have w32codecs from plf. I am therefore getting conflicts between the two rpms. Should I then uninstall the plf and install the one from .br? w32codec just seems to provide win32 dlls and other files as I would expect. I found the 'cook' lib in users/Real/Codecs underneath the RealPlayer9 dir. Should I try making a symlink? Trying a symlink into /usr/lib doesn't give an error for the 'cook' lib, but it says it can't find a demuxer plugin for the url I specified. In the error details, I get a message that the demuxer failed to start, but that it did find a demuxer plugin. Now I'm getting a little confused. Try uninstalling all the w32codecs you have installed, get rid of all the symlinks, and then install everything from scratch. Try installing xine AFTER you install the codecs. I don't know if this makes a difference, but just to be safe. John Drouhard - --- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. - -- -- Tue Aug 5 11:28:07 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. Plugins are .so files in the plugin folders. Helper applications are entered for those things you wish accomplished that don't have a plugin. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 02:36, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:08 am, John Drouhard wrote:
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote:
I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked
edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has
trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other
message.
Xine is telling me that it lacks a plugin for Real Audio.
Specifically, it doesn't know how to handle RealAudio COOK,
whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not
installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried
variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will
get support for that.
John Drouhard
John, do we need the latest xine? I'm running 0.9.18. I don't get
any error reports, but I don't get sound either. The url scrolls at
the top of the control panel, but no sound appears.
Anne
check the xine config, it needs special support for ARTS I seem to
recall that's what you use. My startup is: xine -A arts. There's also an
option in ~/.xine/config2:
# audio driver to use
# { auto null alsa oss arts esd }, default: 0
audio.driver:arts
But I seem to need both set.
--
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Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 3:18 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Do you have the mimetypes audio/x-pn-realaudio and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin? I had the first, but not the second, so I tried to add it, but clearly I got it wrong. I guess my question is now the same as Stefano's. Can you tell us exactly what should be in those two entries? Anne MIME Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio Description: Anything you want. Extension: ram rm ra Open it with: /usr/bin/realplay8 (I installed the realplayer from Texstar) MIME Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin Description: Real Media Plugin Extension: rpm Open it with: /usr/bin/realplay8 I don't know if this will help any, but that's all I have.With my current setup I don't have any problems using Real Media streams on the net, and I don't know what differs it from anyone else's. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
it is there, as the shockwave and all the others. but still does not work /stefano John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:58:11 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My helper list is empty, my plugin list is full. And nothing happens when I get to .ra files or others... Simply proposes to download them to the local disk /stefano What does it say when you type about:plugins in the address field? If the xine plugin isn't there, then that's why it isn't working. Make sure you have RealPlayer9 and xine installed. John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards /stefano Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Do you have the mimetypes audio/x-pn-realaudio and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
The rpm puts the plugin in /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xine-plugin.so. Just copy this file to the mozilla plugin directory and you will have John, that might just be a fantastic tip, but I can't seem to make it work. I have a link which the rpm provided, in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Clicking on a radio station now that offers Real Media playback just causes mozilla to crash with a sig 11. Do I need to do anything else? I found no plugins or helpers in $HOME/.mozilla. Should there be? Oh, and this is 9.2 cooker beta 1. :) John Drouhard David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. Xine is telling me that it lacks a plugin for Real Audio. Specifically, it doesn't know how to handle RealAudio COOK, whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:08 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. Xine is telling me that it lacks a plugin for Real Audio. Specifically, it doesn't know how to handle RealAudio COOK, whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will get support for that. John Drouhard John, do we need the latest xine? I'm running 0.9.18. I don't get any error reports, but I don't get sound either. The url scrolls at the top of the control panel, but no sound appears. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? /stefano Larry Sword wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will get support for that. I have the rpm's - specifically 0.52 of thw w32codec. But I already have w32codecs from plf. I am therefore getting conflicts between the two rpms. Should I then uninstall the plf and install the one from .br? w32codec just seems to provide win32 dlls and other files as I would expect. I found the 'cook' lib in users/Real/Codecs underneath the RealPlayer9 dir. Should I try making a symlink? Trying a symlink into /usr/lib doesn't give an error for the 'cook' lib, but it says it can't find a demuxer plugin for the url I specified. In the error details, I get a message that the demuxer failed to start, but that it did find a demuxer plugin. John Drouhard David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:36:48 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:08 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. Xine is telling me that it lacks a plugin for Real Audio. Specifically, it doesn't know how to handle RealAudio COOK, whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will get support for that. John Drouhard John, do we need the latest xine? I'm running 0.9.18. I don't get any error reports, but I don't get sound either. The url scrolls at the top of the control panel, but no sound appears. Do you get sound in say, xmms? I have xine version 0.9.21 but I don't know if that would make a difference. You shouldn't have any helper applications at all in the Mozilla preferences. The plugin knows to call xine when it is needed. John Drouhard Anne -- Tue Aug 5 11:33:13 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Do you have the mimetypes audio/x-pn-realaudio and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne I'm not sure why the realplayer plugin isn't working, but I have never liked it anyway. Try xine with the xine mozilla plugin. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-030803.i586.rpm The rpm puts the plugin in /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xine-plugin.so. Just copy this file to the mozilla plugin directory and you will have quicktime, windows media player, and real media player file support. Plus, the sound quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 4 10:41:46 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
whilst the xine plugin is well listed in the About Plugins screen as INSTALLED, i do not get the support for RealPlayer. BTW, this happens for Shockwave Flash even if the plugin for Shockvave is also installed. Maybe something wrong with how Mozilla is installed on my machine. Thanks /stefano John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne I'm not sure why the realplayer plugin isn't working, but I have never liked it anyway. Try xine with the xine mozilla plugin. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-030803.i586.rpm The rpm puts the plugin in /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xine-plugin.so. Just copy this file to the mozilla plugin directory and you will have quicktime, windows media player, and real media player file support. Plus, the sound quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Monday 04 Aug 2003 4:47 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne I'm not sure why the realplayer plugin isn't working, but I have never liked it anyway. Try xine with the xine mozilla plugin. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-0 30803.i586.rpm The rpm puts the plugin in /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xine-plugin.so. Just copy this file to the mozilla plugin directory and you will have quicktime, windows media player, and real media player file support. Plus, the sound quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard Well, I installed it, and xine fires up when the media player is required, I see 'Buffering [0%]' and no sound comes out. I've caused mozilla to crash more times in the past hour than in the previous year! The last one was a bit red-button job. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:28:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 4:47 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne I'm not sure why the realplayer plugin isn't working, but I have never liked it anyway. Try xine with the xine mozilla plugin. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/xine-mozilla-plugin-0.2-0 30803.i586.rpm The rpm puts the plugin in /usr/lib/xine-plugin/xine-plugin.so. Just copy this file to the mozilla plugin directory and you will have quicktime, windows media player, and real media player file support. Plus, the sound quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard Well, I installed it, and xine fires up when the media player is required, I see 'Buffering [0%]' and no sound comes out. Humm the plugin might be a bit buggy. Try going to xine.sf.net and downloading a new version. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ I actually use this, and it is stable. Mozilla is not the problem. The plugin is not perfect yet, it freezes mine too. Maybe the OSS drivers work better for streaming. I'll look into it tomorrow. I've caused mozilla to crash more times in the past hour than in the previous year! The last one was a bit red-button job. Anne John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 4 22:36:03 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. Xine is telling me that it lacks a plugin for Real Audio. Specifically, it doesn't know how to handle RealAudio COOK, whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Go here and download the RealPlayer9 and w32codec rpms. You will get support for that. John Drouhard - --- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. - -- -- Mon Aug 4 23:07:30 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
