How odd. yet Help -> About RealPlayer [as well as the RPM name] reveal
themselves to be RealPlayer 8, and RP7 content [the Toni Braxton lin at
the top of Take 5, for example] plays okay, anything RealPlayer 8 ish
[like the take 5 -> U2 thing]
pops up the message about how I need to download `glorious' realplayer 8.
This is A Bad Thing for 2 reasons:
1) I can't see RealPlayer 8 content with a player that says its version 8
2) Bono Vox is talented, whereas Toni Braxton is not ;-)
My player version is 8.0.3.412
Thanks for your help...
Mike
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2001 15:31, you wrote:
>
> In netscape I went to real.com
>
> followed the take5 link
>
> Realplayer started with a series of links in it.
>
> Went to bono-fide grammy nominee
>
> It fired right up. I hope I hit the link you are refering to, but to double
> check everything and myself I clicked on the tomb raider link from the
> real.com site which states it requires RealPlayer8. That also came up with
> no problems.
>
> I would have to say rp8 is out there for linux and seems to be working fine.
> Did you try downloading the rpm again, just in case there was a problem with
> the one you got?
>
> I checked my netscape mime types and here are a couple of samples to see if
> they help you out
>
> Description: RealMedia File
> MimeType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia
> Suffixes: .rm
> Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s
>
> Description: RealVideo File
> MimeType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo
> Suffixes: .rv
> Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s
>
> Description: RealAudio File 2
> MimeType: audio/x-pn-realaudio
> Suffixes: .ra,.ram
> Application: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay %s
>
> Description:
> MimeType: audio/x-pn-aiff
> Suffixes: aiff,af
> Application: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay "%u"
>
> Now the /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay is actually a link to
> /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay and the %s is important in getting realplayer
> to load with the files you want to play.
>
> So first thing I would do is check and see if you have the
> /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 dir. If so then realplayer 8 was installed for you and
> it is most likely an issue of mime types and application helpers. If that is
> the case check out an earlier email in this thread that had the instructions
> for setting up the mime types.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> > Correction: There is a player avaliable for Linux called `RealPlayer 8'
> > from Real.
> >
> > I still maintain its a bad name, since [after downloading it] it can't
> > play any RealPlayer 8 content - try doing the `Take Five' -> `Bono' link
> > again. `To see this content, you need glorious RealPlayer 8'.
> >
> > Grrr.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > Mike MacCana Support Consultant
> > C Y B E R S O U R C E
> > Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000
> > Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:39, you wrote:
> > >
> > > I download realplayer myself yesterday:
> > >
> > > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm
> > >
> > > About indicates: version 8.0.3.412
> > >
> > > When I installed rp7 I had to manually add the mime types to Netscape, I
> > > had followed the same instructions that were posted in Larry's reply. So
> > > I honestly can't say if rp8 did anything or not regarding the plugin's.
> > > I usually go to a site called vidnet to test my realplayer. I have it
> > > working in netscape, as for Konqueror it doesn't work. I suspect I will
> > > have to go into configure and set the mime types.
> > >
> > > > Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The
> > > > Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the Linux
> > > > version is only RealPlayer 7, no matter white the site says [check
> > > > `help about' to see]. Another test is going to take5 [click the take5
> > > > link] and trying to watch the Bono video. You'll get a message about
> > > > how you need `glorious RealPlayer 8' to watch it.
> > > >
> > > > Send an email to Real asking for a version 8 for Linux if and when
> > > > you're dissappointed :-(.
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------
> > > > Mike MacCana Support Consultant
> > > > C Y B E R S O U R C E
> > > > Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000
> > > > Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Luk Vermeylen wrote:
> > > > > with realplayer 8.0 are delivered 2 files who make the plugins and
> > > > > mime work like that
> > > > > i've answered the quetion a few days ago
> > > > > look in the directory of realplayer. they are named something like
> > > > > rpplugin & rpmime
> > > > >
> > > > > Luk Vermeylen
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Brian Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:28 AM
> > > > > Subject: [expert] RealPlayer
> > > > >
> > > > > > I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on
> > > > > > it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck.
> > > > > > Has anyone
> > > > >
> > > > > gotten
> > > > >
> > > > > > this to work?
>
