Re: Streaming mutimedia doesn't.

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:47, James wrote:

> | I just don't seem to be able to get streaming multimedia to work right.
> 
> I have never managed to get Realplayer to work inside Netscape/Mozilla,
> however the client works perfectly on its own. I just downloaded it and
> ran it.
> Flash also works fine under Mozilla 1.0. All you have to do is download
> the required files (Mozilla has a link somewhere - press the Mozilla
> spinner thing on your browser) and copy the plugin into the right
> location.

Good point - I should have mentioned that Realplayer itself runs ok.
Some places on the web, I can occasionally click on a "listen to this"
button and it works. But it seems like most web sites now (certainly
lots of internet radio sites) don't put simple, old fashioned links to
the stream. I guess it's probably more to do with the browsers not
passing the information to realplayer in the correct format or
something.

Yeah, I think I got flash working ok mostly. I have to confess that I
haven't recently gone into non-working web sites in great detail - I
just got so used to about 30% of the web not working in linux that I
just went "Oh, another one not working - that'll be multimedia then."
and ignored it.

> 
> GNOME, Sawfish, and Ximian (which isn't a 'thing', more a group of
> people) aren't anything to do with it.

No, that's probably true. I was thinking in terms of maybe a mime
problem but I was clutching at straws...

> 
> The only things I can't get working are Java applets, but I've not
> really been trying that hard. Adobe's PDF plugin seems to work well
> though.

PDF is ok, but yeah, I agree that Java is really very limited. I did
install the appropriate bits, and for some Java it actually works, but
for some reason most of it either doesn't work at all, or works only
partially. I know nothing about java in web pages (it's on my list of
things to learn...) so I have no idea why some work and some don't.

> 
> If you don't know, typing "about:plugins" into your Mozilla addressbar
> will tell you what plugins are loaded, and if you run Mozilla from a
> command prompt (XTerm, Gnome terminal, etc) you might see some errors
> that could help pinpoint any problems you're having.

Thanks. Yeah, I already tried these things. I have numerous plugins, all
apparently there and working. It's just when I actually try and use them
that they often don't work right. As for the command prompt: it gives me
nothing helpful. Nothing at all, in fact. I should probably spend some
time looking for a --debug or -vv switch...

Maybe I just need to build everything from source...

P.