Realplayer in firefox is quite slow.

[manchicken]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 17:30:21 newburghmark at aol.com wrote:
> I'm guessing that they are the same.  I think, I'm not sure, but I
> think that the Firefox plug in is really so that Firefox knows where to
> look for Real Player.  The plug in won't run anything, but it will look
> like it opened Real Player even if you uninstall real player, because
> it has the gui interface of Real Player for Firefox in the plug in.
>
> I'm a little less than sure about what I am saying, but I think that
> this relates to their being no registry in Linux.  Because Firefox has
> no central place to look for a plug in, it has to know where to look on
> it's own.  ( I am guessing a little here.)
>
> Hopefully, someone who is more of an expert about this than I am will
> comment.  I only followed up because you seem to be actively
> configuring Real Player at the moment, and the experts might be off line
>
> Robert Mark Wallace
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asyrewicze at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Realplayer in firefox is quite slow.
>
>   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.
> >
> > Be sure, too, that you don't have another program running that is
> > slowing your whole system down.  A crucial difference between Linux
>
> and
>
> > Windows is that when you close and restart Windows, the only programs
> > that start are the ones on a list.  With Linux, if you restart the
> > system and there is a process running, it will pick up where it left
> > off unless you kill it per se.
> >
> > Robert Mark Wallace
> > Tita P Wallace
> > Regina E P Wallace
> > R M Ceferino P Wallace
> > 60 Delaware Road
> > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802
> > Telephone: (845) 566-0586
> >
> > Why run an old edition of Windows when you can run the latest edition
> > of Linux for free?  For a free download, go to WWW.Kubuntu.com
> >
> > -----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???
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Realplayer settings are unique to realplayer.  The browser plugin reads from 
the RealPlayer settings last I checked.  I've never had luck with RealPlayer.  
It's a generally crappy program that I find best to avoid when possible.  If 
it's not possible, you my want to look at realplayer's support forums and 
such.

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