Realplayer in firefox is quite slow.

[Andrew Syrewicze]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:15:01 newburghmark at aol.com wrote:
> Possibly increasing the buffer.  If you do that, it will take longer to
> start playing, but will have more of the stream in memory.
>
> Check the settings within Real Player and be sure that it isn't trying
> to support a faster connection than you have.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asyrewicze at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:42 AM
> Subject: Realplayer in firefox is quite slow.
>
>    setup realplayer on my box for the first time yesterday. Install
> seemed to go
> quite well. I installed it to /usr/local/Realplayer just for simplicity
> sake.
>
> After the installer was done and it had created the symlinks, i
> symlinked the
> mozilla plugin to my fire plugins folder.
>
> Real player works within the browser, but it's really choppy and the
> picture
> distorts somewhat. I'm running on 3 meg cable and trying to watch some
> internet tv. i would think i have plenty of bandwidth for such a thing.
>
> Any Ideas???
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Now this is quite possibly a silly question but i've never messed with real 
player on linux before. If i change the buffer size within realplayer itself, 
will that also change the buffer size for the Firefox-plugin as well???