Posted on 02/27/2006 11:43:58 AM PST by Panerai
"RealVideo not for me."
Part of the problem is that Dell's come preloaded with Real and people start using it without even realizing.
OK that was a *lot* of work.
Well, not the RPM that you found me - that was very cool and installed without a hitch.
Took me a while to figure out that I needed to configure the video out to be x11 - I think the default is xv and I have a primitive video card - onboard graphics in fact - but vo=x11 worked fine.
Next, had to get mplayerplugin working. I built it from source, and that wasn't too bad. Next, it wants you to copy the stuff to /usr/bin/firefox/plugins and /usr/bin/firefox/components.
The kicker was that some of the instructions just said to copy mplayerplug-in.so to /usr/bin/firefox/plugins but what took me a while to figure out that you want to copy mplayerplug*.so to that directory! IOW, you build 5 .so's and 5 .xpt's and they *all* need to go to their respective directories!
Once I figured that out, Things Just Work.
Thank you very much, you've helped me out a lot!
I'm still not that great at building from source--I found that even when I ran Slackware.
I'm just used to the packages, I guess. 8^)
Looks like you pretty much did it by yourself, with a pointer in the right direction. More than I can say for most people. Looks like taking a chance on Linux was a good move for you ;-)
It won't be too long before you're bootstrapping your own Gentoo box HAHA!
Xine as well. I chose to un-install the RPMs and rebuild xine from source, since I needed support for libdvdcss among other things. I used library version 1.11 (which also contains the updated codecs -- seems to be the only way to get the Divx DX50 codec these days) and the UI version 0.99 on Red Hat 7.3 running kernel 2.4.32 and XFree86 4.2.
Works like a charm.
After my early success last night I decided to extend my success to RealAudio/Video. So I got their stuff and somewhere along the way my mplayer stuff is no longer working :(
The browser loads the mplayer plugin but nothing plays.
Looks like I have more work to do before I can say I hit a home run and can play all types of media files.
It's all good though :)
OK, all is good now!
Now everything (.wmv, .asx, .rm etc. etc.) is playing in the firefox browser inside the mplayer plugin.
To figure out what I screwed up I created a new user account and it worked great right out of the box. So I had screwed somethign in my $HOME. So I looked and looked in .mozilla and couldn't find the turd in the punchbowl.
It ended up being the .mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf which is not under .mozilla.
Nuking this file made everything all better. Go figure.
Rel still excists? After their spyware debacle a couple years ago, I thought everyone would have abandoned them. I guess the sheeple really don't care after all. At least I realize why Microsoft is the dominating player in the computer industry.
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