Mozilla and real audio...

[Jerry McBride]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:06:03 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:36:38 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Jerry McBride wrote:
> >>
> >>>I got it... It's a classic OSS vs. ARTS issue... here's the poop...
> >>>
> >>>After installing REALPLAYER 8 for Unix on customers laptop... Mozilla fails
> >>>to play *.ram files while running KDE desktop.
> >>>
> >>>The fix... After adding a helper app to Mozilla with the correct mime type
> >>>of: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
> >>>
> >>>and pointing to /usr/lib/RealAudio8/realplaywrapper
> >>>
> >>>I then moved to /usr/lib/RealAudio8 and created the following script named:
> >>>realplaywrapper
> >>>
> >>>#!/bin/bash
> >>>
> >>>artsdsp /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay.exe $1
> >>>
> >>>#end of script.
> >>>
> >>>Do a chmod +x on the script...
> >>>
> >>>Then close mozilla, open it again and go play some *.ram links...
> >>>
> >>>It's a kludge... but the man with the money is extremely happy...
> >>>
> >>>:')
> >>
> >>Does this start a plugin or realplay in a separate window?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > RealPlay pops up in a separate window...
> > 
> 
> I did this in a different way, I think.
> My realplay is installed in /usr/local/RealPlayer8, and I choose to open 
> the file type using an external application (in mozilla I was prompted) 
> and chose /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay as the executable, which cause 
> it to start each time I click a .ram link. I think I repeated the 
> process with .rm, etc.
> 

That's what I tried when mozilla prompted me "what to do". I even pointed to the
same realplay as you did, but moz failed to link it up for me... I did it the
Frank way.... "I did it my way..."  :')



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