[KLUG Members] Question about Realplayer, archived audio, and particular websites.

[Robert G. Brown]

I had written...
>> > Well, it turns out that when we go to a particular website ...
>> > (http://www.pipedreams.org)
>> > And press one of the "Listen" links in the archive (even "Last weeks'
>> > show), we get this dialog box from RealPlay...

Adam Willimas replied...
>>  Nope, works here; no quibbles.
>> RealPlayer-8.0.3.421-0.ximian.6.7

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:34:01 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
>It has something to do with the way the browser or plugin is setup.
>I got the same error as Bob with FireFox on SuSE, then I looked at the
>web page source, started realplayer manually, did a "open location" on
>the rm URL in the web page:
>
>rtsp://a754.v5559f.c5559.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/754/5559/v001/mpr.do
wnload.akamai.com/5559/pipedreams/2004/03/14_pipedreams.rm

>And it plays fine that way, so it's not the realplayer software.
>Unfortunately, I don't know enough about plugins to know how to fix it.

This is a good, helpful sanity test... it's not a problem with the 
components at all, but rather the problem is how they are integrated.

I am using (probably Bruce, too) the SAME version of RealPlayer (8.0.3.421)
that Adam is using...and while I'm using GNOME, it's the version from RH9,
and has not been "Ximianized". 

The Mozilla plug-in config panel I have seems a bit deficient, like there
isn't a good way to configure these, or perhaps I'm missing something there.
I suppse it would be interesting to see what browser Adam is using, and 
what is done to get things to "just work"...seems like there is something
thst processed the .php file, extracted the URL, and passed it to RealPlayer...

Care to comment, Adam?
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