Realplayer and other stuff...

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:09:42 +0100
"Michael Shergold" <michaelshergold at btconnect.com> wrote:

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> I often access BBC sites which require REALPLAYER. So I installed REALPLAYER 10 and it sits there in the application list but never seems to start. then from the BBC WEBSITEs it seems to start correctly but nothing streams to the player and it makes no sound and eventually after a lot of clicking about I get the message that the RadioPlayer program is not responding and I have to click to kill it.   It at first seemed  to require two nphelix files but they seem to be uninstalled perhaps when REALPlayer is installed as it seems to unistall the helix software.

My experience is that Helix Player conflicts with Real Player. Another tip I picked up that seemed to help was to delete the .swf files from the plugin directory. I actually have no idea why this helps or what on earth they were doing there to begin with, but deleting them got the player working with the BBC's radio player, FWIW.
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> How does this update system work?  Every couple of days when I switch on it tells me updates are available.  Are they forecast or something as usually I've not connected when I see this icon..  Or perhaps they were there the previous evening when I logged out.

AFAIK the update manager relies on the apt system, so any updates are set by your most recent apt-get update or Synaptic reload. (I may be wrong )

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> Almost a Linux convert but not quite
> Michael

:)  Stick with it - it gets better !

HTH

Peter