Hello Benjamin,
I installed the new RealPlayer7 Beta on a Mandrake 7 box yesterday.
Also after uninstalling the G2 Player. I am running Netscape 4.7
Originally there was only one entry:
netscape/edit/preferences/navigator/applications/
RealAudio /usr/bin/realplay %s
I went into: netscape/edit/preferences/navigator/applications/
and then found the entrys for:
RealPlayer
applications/smil
audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
some of these entrys were lacking the
trailing space and %s
at the end of their statements
for example:
/usr/bin/X11/realplay %s
this will fix some of your problems.
I don't have the plug in part where I understand it yet.
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Also I don't like the fact that you can't bookmark sites in the
RealPlayer7 like you could in the G2 Player. The 7 saves sites to a
webpage @ real's site .. not sure I like that. I often use
http://www.penguinradio.com/ to find stations I like and save to return
to at a later time. The idea of having to create my own index and text
file don't turn me on. It was working ... now it's fixed ?? Humm we'll
wait and see.
I plan to reinstall it and see if they can coexist, with some fiddling.
And also hope there isn't some kind of time bomb running for the G2
version.
As to the adding rpm to the sufix's list for the player ... I was
unsure of that and didn't try it. It was way to late in the nite for
experimentation. My first instinct was that it wouls open rpm's I was
reying to download and try to play them with RP7 ... don't think that
wouls work. I'm a control freak .. I'll put up with 2-3 extra steps to
have total control over what happens. Otherwise .. why not go back to
windoz?
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> The new RealPlayer7 Beta is here with all the plugins is here.
>
> Warning: There are two versions, an rpm for RedHat ALONE (it WON'T work
> on Mandrake 7) and one for the rest of us. It looks great.
>
> The address for us Mandrake folks is:
>
> http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html
>
> Read the installation instructions on the download page (at the bottom
> of the page) and for "Directory" during installation choose your
> /home/user directory. I guessed wrong, but it doesn't matter.
> RealPlayer7 automatically creates a "RealPlayer7" subfolder on
> /home/user. You play RealPlayer7 by cd to the subfolder "RealPlayer7"
> and then typing ./realplay. You can also, of course, create a link on
> your Desktop with precisely this command for the executable.
>
> 1) MY BIG QUESTION: How do you configure the new RealPlayer7 in
> Netscape under Applications to play RealPlayer. I typed
> "home/sher/RealPlayer7/./realplayer" or the same without the ./
>
> In either case, when clicking on a RealPlayer site, it launched
> Realplayer7 but played nothing except its usual little jingle. By the
> way, I did completely delete (rpm -e) the old RealPlayer G2 Alpha.
>
> 2) Second big question: For the suffixes in Netscape should you add ram
> AND rpm to the RealAudio entry? So should the suffixes read:
> ra,ram,rm,rpm? And perhaps some other suffixes for other plugins?
>
> Please advise. We are all waiting with baited breath.
>
> Yours,
>
> Benjamin
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