I checked http://www.mandrake.org and found the answers. I had to add several new lines to Applications in Netscape 4.7, and RealPlayer7 is working perfectly. Roman Michael Rowland wrote: > > I am not sure exactly where to look. I tried the search method and didn't > get anything useful from the search engine. I tried redoing the settings for > the helper applications for netscape such as for mime type I re entered the > following: > MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio > Suffixes: .ra, .ram > Application: > /usr/local/RealPlayer7/realplay %s > > I still get no sound out of the player. The realplayer does show that it is > buffering and it does give the name of site that it is buffering on the > title bar. The only thing that I noticed is that the Netscape preferences > seem to rewrite values, eg. for Suffixes it gives .ra, .ram, /, / instead > of what I originally entered .ra, .ram . Is there anything to this? > Otherwise any help is much appreciated! > > Thanks, > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:01 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound after configuring realplayer 7 > > > Michael...check out www.mandrake.org. There is a great help file for > > RealPlayer G2. However, it also applies to RealPlayer7 Basic. While in > > Netscape Navigator, you must edit Applications and add several lines. > > Once you finish adding the new lines, including the MIME entries, > > RealPlayer7 will work. This happened to me but now I'm up and running. > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael Rowland wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been having difficulty configuring realplayer 7 with my system. I > > > have no sound with realplayer only a indicator showing that it is > playing. I > > > setup realplayer 7 as root user and configured it to work with netscape > > > which worked although sound quality was poor. I wanted to use it as > another > > > user so that I didn't have to login as root. I gave permission to > myself as > > > a user for the realplay and for esd to try to make it work as another > user. > > > It did work for a time last night, but the system crashed a while later > > > where I had to turn the power off to get any control over the system. I > used > > > lothar and my sound card is configured as Yamaha 030 which works > although > > > the sound quality is not great! I also checked the CD player kscd 1.2.7 > > > which has perfect sound! My question what do I need to check to make > > > realplayer work??? What was likely to have been messed up??? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Mike
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