Strange RealPlayer

[nlavon]

I am not sure if this is a problem or not :-)

I installed RealPlayer 11Gold from bin and things seemed to go well enough. I checked the "about:plugins" and saw Real Player or Helix registered as G2 plugin and the audio codec.

But it never plays RM media on Firefox. Instead, it is taken over by Totem which ended up playing RM, Windows Media and everything else. I haven't tried playing media files directly through the player but I have tried to go to a URL and that doesn't work, so I guess the installation didn't go as swimmingly as I thought,

But Firefox with Totem works and I really don't care what plays the media files, but it is a little weird that RealPlayer is not playing this stuff but some other application is.

I am thinking of uninstalling RealPlayer if it doesn't do anything or add anything to the system. Think I should uninstall or is there something I didn't do correctly?

I did follow the instructions in Terminal laid out in this forum about a month ago.

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA

[gandaran]

real player does not work as an embedded mozilla player, it'll work on web sites that support a stand alone player like the bbc web page, it'll pop up when you choose real video.
there's no need to install real player in ubuntu, there are other mozilla plugins that can do the real video job, totem gstreamer doesn't play real media files but totem xine does, it's only a case of uninstalling totem gstreamer and installing totem xine in place.

[nlavon]

Thanks for the reply to this. I was just used to RealPlayer in the Windows world.

As I said, I can click now on either a RM or WM file in a browser and have it play in Totem, so something must be installed that is working; I did install the GStream application from Synaptic (when I was prompted for codec search) so when I click on a Real Media file or even a Windows file, it does open up in Totem and plays.

So far, I haven't had problems with video files playing in Ubuntu. I would like to uninstall RealPlayer as per the instructions posted here about a month ago (involving a reinstall then a terminal script to uninstall).

But then there's that little voice saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I may try RealPlayer on the BBC website and see if it works.

Thanks again!

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA