Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] Configuring Firefox to play RealPlayer instead of mplayerplugin

[Benjamin S. <del...@ze...>]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Benjamin Sher wrote:
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>> Dear Kevin:
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>> Using PCLINUXOS .93 Minime.
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>> When I click on the RealPlayer icon on the Russian web site Svoboda at:
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>> http://www.svobodanews.ru/
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>> (Click on the RealPlayer link right below the orange line).
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>> it brings up mplayerplugin. I really prefer to use Realplayer. I have, 
>> of course, unchecked RealPlayer in the mplayerplug-in conf file. I know 
>> there is a way to do this in Firefox by configuring the file extension 
>> (ram, rm, rpm, etc.) in Edit, Preferences, Downloads, Download Actions. 
>> It lists Shockwave Flash as the default player for swf files. But I 
>> can't figure out how to do this for the RealPlayer extensions. I would 
>> appreciate your help in how to do this. By the way, when I click on the 
>> same link in Konqueror, it gives me the option of selecting RealPlayer. 
>> Why can't I do that in Firefox? How do I get the RealPlayer link in 
>> Firefox to bring up RealPlayer instead of mplayerplugin?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Benjamin
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> Ben,
>
> Did you uncheck real player support in the config dialog or thru the
> config file? If you did it thru the config file make sure you delete the
> pluginreg.dat file  in ~/.mozilla and maybe in ~/.firefox or
> ~/.mozilla/firefox. You may have to do this anyway even if you did it
> via the config dialog.
>
> As for the realplayer stuff... I have no idea as I don't use it. You
> should ask someplace else about that.
>
> Kevin
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Dear Kevin:

Thanks so much. You are right. I deleted the ~/mozilla/plugin
reg.dat file and the ~/firefox/pluginreg.dat files and restarted 
Firefox. Now I can open the URL in RealPlayer. Thanks again.

Benjamin