Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 04:59 pm, Darren Henderson wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Rob wrote: I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. While not directly related to the point its possible to listen to realaudio streams just fine without linux compatibility or resorting to windows. Look into mplayer, mplayer-plugin, xine, kmplayer, gmplayer and perhaps even xmms. Use the location menu item on RealPlayer and add http://66.246.59.69:8700 You probably won't understand it but Xeoax, Oaxaca is the only realaudio stream that I listen to. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA Nunca te acostarás sin saber una cosa más http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kent Stewart wrote: Use the location menu item on RealPlayer and add http://66.246.59.69:8700 You probably won't understand it but Xeoax, Oaxaca is the only realaudio stream that I listen to. kmplayer and gmplayer handle it perfectly. Xine handles it but doesn't sound quite as good (lot of tinkering that can be done there though). Totem plays it but its only tolerable if you really like chipmunks. -Darren __ Darren Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Friday 23 December 2005 07:57 am, Darren Henderson wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kent Stewart wrote: Use the location menu item on RealPlayer and add http://66.246.59.69:8700 You probably won't understand it but Xeoax, Oaxaca is the only realaudio stream that I listen to. kmplayer and gmplayer handle it perfectly. Xine handles it but doesn't sound quite as good (lot of tinkering that can be done there though). Totem plays it but its only tolerable if you really like chipmunks. Even mplayer will play it if you get past the message about ~/.mplayer/subfont.tttf. If you can play it, the application works over the network. I have been known to record the news from Oaxaca, México and burn a CD for friends from there. It is a kind of poke in the ribs to get them on the Internet. It hasn't worked yet but I keep trying :). If realplayer won't work with firefox, the relationship between firefox preferences download actions and audio/x-pn-realaudio is screwed up. You should be able to point the firefox file action to anything that will play a realaudio file type. This is also true for mp3 file actions. Before I did any of this, I added links to nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins and /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins I don't know which one made the difference. I tweaked until I could see the plugins in mozilla. I am also using the default libmap.conf for the version [56]-stable. At any rate, firefox-1.5_5,1 will play *.ram files on all of my systems (with sound cards, speakers and either 5-stable or 6-stable) when I visit websites with realaudio *.ram files. The only problem is that the realaudio sites I listen to are folklóric sites from Columbia and Venezuela. This includes winamp playlists using xmms. I haven't made mozilla work but then I don't miss the capability either :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA Nunca te acostarás sin saber una cosa más http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Rob wrote: I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. While not directly related to the point its possible to listen to realaudio streams just fine without linux compatibility or resorting to windows. Look into mplayer, mplayer-plugin, xine, kmplayer, gmplayer and perhaps even xmms. __ Darren Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: Dev Tugnait wrote: The port is not broken cvsup your tree Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will correct. The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your browser_plugins dir? That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong place. That's the job of the port. You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some of us read their mails ;-) Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is broken You have too much to manually correct. At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do it automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because there isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that span many months. If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt Just my .02 Beech I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and pasting various config files together out of what little documentation exists for fontconfig. The documentation is so poor that I have no idea what I am doing anyway. Searches on Google and the mailing lists were no help either. It is very frustrating. I concur that some of these programs are just not desktop ready. At this rate I am never going to be able to get rid of XP on my laptop. Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Monday 19 December 2005 18:41, Rob wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: Dev Tugnait wrote: The port is not broken cvsup your tree Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will correct. The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your browser_plugins dir? That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong place. That's the job of the port. You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some of us read their mails ;-) Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is broken You have too much to manually correct. At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do it automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because there isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that span many months. If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt Just my .02 Beech I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and pasting various config files together out of what little documentation exists for fontconfig. The documentation is so poor that I have no idea what I am doing anyway. Searches on Google and the mailing lists were no help either. It is very frustrating. I concur that some of these programs are just not desktop ready. At this rate I am never going to be able to get rid of XP on my laptop. Rob. If desktop users only donated a quarter of what they pay for XP to open source projects I'm sure priorities would change drastically. As it is we get way more than we pay for. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
Rob writes: I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. For the record, I am currently listening to NPR (the first thing I could find) using multimedia/linux-realplayer on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Dec 3 23:27:16 EST 2005 I have no idea who fontconfig exists, but it sounds like you need to reinstall. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Monday 19 December 2005 05:41 pm, Rob wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: Dev Tugnait wrote: The port is not broken cvsup your tree Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will correct. The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your browser_plugins dir? That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong place. That's the job of the port. You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some of us read their mails ;-) Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is broken You have too much to manually correct. At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do it automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because there isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that span many months. If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt Just my .02 Beech I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. I have no problems running realplayer installed from the ports. The helix plugin doesn't work with Firefox or Mozilla, but realplay works standalone. I would start by making sure your ports are up to date and reinstalling linux-fontconfig. If that doesn't work portupgrade -rf linux-realplayer and it will rebuild everything that depends on it. Also do a pkgdb -F to make sure your dependency database is OK. I didn't have any config problems with fontconfig, and didn't have to tweak anything. Sounds like something else is wrong. Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and pasting various config files together out of what little documentation exists for fontconfig. The documentation is so poor that I have no idea what I am doing anyway. Searches on Google and the mailing lists were no help either. It is very frustrating. I concur that some of these programs are just not desktop ready. At this rate I am never going to be able to get rid of XP on my laptop. -- --- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com --- pgpoYwE0wvElv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig
On Monday 19 December 2005 07:24 pm, Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 05:41 pm, Rob wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: Dev Tugnait wrote: The port is not broken cvsup your tree Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will correct. The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your browser_plugins dir? That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong place. That's the job of the port. You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some of us read their mails ;-) Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is broken You have too much to manually correct. At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do it automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because there isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that span many months. If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_t o.txt Just my .02 Beech I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot into Windows to do it. The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. I have no problems running realplayer installed from the ports. The helix plugin doesn't work with Firefox or Mozilla, but realplay works standalone. I would start by making sure your ports are up to date and reinstalling linux-fontconfig. If that doesn't work portupgrade -rf linux-realplayer and it will rebuild everything that depends on it. Also do a pkgdb -F to make sure your dependency database is OK. I didn't have any config problems with fontconfig, and didn't have to tweak anything. Sounds like something else is wrong. I have no problem with the plugins. What I have is /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins/nphelix.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins/nphelix.xpt /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix.xpt /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt Most of them are links and I don't know which directory is the important one but I click on an ram and it plays. Kent Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and pasting various config files together out of what little documentation exists for fontconfig. The documentation is so poor that I have no idea what I am doing anyway. Searches on Google and the mailing lists were no help either. It is very frustrating. I concur that some of these programs are just not desktop ready. At this rate I am never going to be able to get rid of XP on my laptop. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA Nunca te acostarás sin saber una cosa más http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer fontconfig (FIXED)
SNIP The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. I have no problems running realplayer installed from the ports. The helix plugin doesn't work with Firefox or Mozilla, but realplay works standalone. I would start by making sure your ports are up to date and reinstalling linux-fontconfig. If that doesn't work portupgrade -rf linux-realplayer and it will rebuild everything that depends on it. Also do a pkgdb -F to make sure your dependency database is OK. I didn't have any config problems with fontconfig, and didn't have to tweak anything. Sounds like something else is wrong. Thank you Beecher. I did a recursive portupgrade and it works now. Hurray! Rob. You're welcome. I always upgrade anything linux recursively. Since most of the apps are packages you sometimes end up with either bad or wrong lib links if you don't. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com --- pgpEzJbVoGR1n.pgp Description: PGP signature
