[ubuntu-uk] installing real player support in Firefox 2.0/edgy

[Neil Greenwood]

On 10/01/07, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Robert McWilliam wrote:
> > You can look up packages for any version of ubuntu on
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/
> >
> > A search for totem in Dapper:
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=totem&searchon=names&subword=1&version=dapper&release=all
> >
> > gives the package totem-xine-firefox-plugin
>
> I have this package installed together with totem-xine and w32codecs as
> suggested by Popey, however, about:plugins reports the Totem Mozilla
> plugin but does not list RealVideo as a supported format.
>
> I see there is also a mozilla-helix-player package. Is that relevant?
>

Thanks Robert, I'd forgotten about that site.

Tony, try looking through the contents of that package (which you can
do at the site Robert mentioned if you haven't installed it) to see if
it includes a file like the one Popey mentioned earlier.

Hwyl,
Neil.