Realplayer again

[Lisi Reisz]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:01:44 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 18:06:57 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have downloaded and installed first the realplayer available in
> > medibuntu (Realplayer 11).  iPlayer continued to say that it needed
> > Realplayer in both Furefox and Konqueror.  So I clicked thro' to the site
> > offered by the BBC and downloaded and installed from there (Realplayer 11
> > GOLD deb).  Still no joy. So I asked Mozilla for an add-on for Firefox. 
> > Guess what?  It lead me to the same Realplayer Gold site.  I did not
> > install it a third time.
> >
> > I am at my wits end.   How do I persuade both Firefox and the BBC that
> > Realplayer is installed?
> >
> > TIA
> > Lisi
> >
> > PS This troublesome computer will go back to its owner in teh nex day or
> > two and things will settle down until teh next time.  But all this stuff
> > was working before the update....
>
> As far as I understand it, the Medibuntu RealPlayer won't work with the BBC
> site because it doesn't contain the closed-source Real codec used by Real
> for streaming. I've never bothered with RealPlayer anyway. I use
> mozilla-mplayer, which streams RealPlayer 9 and WMA audio - both of which
> seem to work with the BBC site (you need to be patient with it though, it
> does a lot of buffering before it starts playing).
>
> Also, you need to be careful with the order in which you install plugins -
> Firefox will use the first available one so as you installed the
> non-working Medibuntu one first, it'll keep trying to use that one until
> you uninstall it. I'd remove all flavours of RealPlayer, then install
> mozilla-mplayer.
>
> It'd would have been nice if the BBC had carried on with the old ogg vorbis
> streams they used to have... but we can dream... :)

Thanks, Mark. :-)  Before doing as you advise (and I confess that my heart 
sank at the disentangling I would have to do), I tried one last thing.  I 
tried to use iPlayer from Konqueror.  I am listening to Corelli as I write.  
Very nice too!

So the owner is just going to have to use a different browser for the BBC.  He 
was saying that he ought to use Konqueror a bit. ;-)

But I am still very grateful for your advice.  And the explanation will be 
enduringly useful.  I may yet want to persuade Firefox to talk to the BBC.

I had in fact installed mplayer before I started on the various flavours of 
Realplayer.  But not mozilla-mplayer.  I shall know next time.  I had also 
installed KMplayer, which may of course be what Konqueror is using.

Lisi