If you are using the Red Hat rpm. player that one is missing a codec and
will not run. Try the Linux ELF player you get it on the same page.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: gerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 10:44 PM
Subject: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup
> I've got Mandrake 5.3 running pretty smoothly on a K2-166MHz with 64mb
> RAM, 6.4gb hdd, and a Matrox Mystique PCI card. kppp is working as is
> most of Netscape....
>
> But RVPlayer 5.0 is not working quite the way I'd hoped. I followed
> directions in a "How to Use Linux Book," by Bill Ball, and although I
> think the book does a good job in a lot of places, the rvplayer install
> didn't work for me. I check the directions a couple of times and I
> still get error msgs on the order of
>
> "a plugin for the mime type audio/x-wav was not found"
>
> when I visit "www.hampsterdance.com"
>
> or a quick "false-load" of a recording when I click on
>
> http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990416.atc.04.ram
>
> which is located on
> http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1999/current.html
>
> -=-=
>
> Sound is setup pretty well on KDE. I can get sound effects when I move
> from desktop to desktop, or if I close a window,.... The Kmedia program
> worked pretty well, also. Is there a way to set that up. I got Plugger
> 3.0 (after seeing it mentioned in a DejaNews msg), but was only able to
> set it up for root, not a regular user. It will take care of the *.wav
> files and plays them, but I'd rather not go around as "root" to hear
> "wav" files.
>
> I'd very much like to be able to grab/play npr radio programs and other
> rvplayer .ram, .rm,... files.
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> gerry, York, PA
>
>
