Re: [xine-user] Can I reinstate Real Player as the default player for its own files in Firefox?

[Karen H. <he...@t-...>]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 3:23 pm, Carlos Vendramini wrote:
> Karen Heiby wrote:
> >As of this writing, Xine tries to open most Real Player files, and often
> >fails.  A good example would be to try to listen to Real Audio samples of
> >music at cdnow.com.  I get:
> >
> >xine engine error
> >There is no input plugin available to handle '  9
> >[here, it chops the URL and I don't even see it]
> >Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist.
> > I'd just like to go
> > back to Real Player if possible, and would like to know how I can do this
> > while letting Xine open up other media.

> What is your browser? I'm using Opera with Xine and works fine. I can
> listen real media music samples from cdnow.com without problems. Did you
> have the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 ?

I'm using Firefox and yes every imaginable codec is in /usr/lib/win32.  I got 
all of them from Mplayer's site.  The error Xine gives me just doesn't make 
sense.  

> Restart Xine and define it (in your browser) as the default app to open
> " MiME-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio" with file extensions "rmm,ram". I
> don't know with certainty how to configure this in Mozilla/Firefox, then
> forgive me if I can't to be more specific.

This is different.  If the link is to an actual static .rm, .ram, .smil, etc. 
file, for example, "http://example.com/example.ram", Firefox knows to let 
Real Player handle it.  It's associated correctly.  Where I'm having a 
problem is when the link is actually to a .cgi file which later processes and 
delivers the content.  I think on CDNOW they have scripts.  You'll see a link 
like this for example:  
"http://example.com/cgi/script.cgi/content=RM...blablabla"  but no actual 
real media file in it.  If you hover over an audio example at CDNOW.com, you 
won't see that it actually links directly to a Real Media file.  Hard to 
explain, but that's where I'm having these kinds of problems.  It's something 
Mplayer could never quite do without using the plugin and remaining within 
Firefox, but I like Xine for its ability to munch on the cgi and play 
resulting files in an external player.

I wonder if something bad simply went wrong with my Xine install.  I remember 
at one point that it nagged me for a dependency that I knew I had, because 
I'd just installed the package for it.  So maybe a package was not quite done 
right, or was corrupt.

Thanks,
Karen