70956 - Realplayer plugin won't get registered

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56464

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Vesa Halttunen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686; en-US; 0.9) Gecko/20010305
BuildID:    2001030508

After placing rpnp.so and raclass.zip from the RealPlayer 8 UNIX distribution in
the mozilla/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins directory Mozilla will not register
the Realplayer plugin at all. RealPlayer streams will not get played.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy rpnp.so and raclass.zip in $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins/
2. Run Mozilla
3. Watch Mozilla not register the plugin
4. Try viewing an embedded Realvideo clip and you'll get a "missing plugin" dialog


Actual Results:  Mozilla did not register the Realplayer plugin and embedded
Real content was not shown.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have registered the Realplayer plugin and
embedded Real content should have been shown.

This system is running Linux 2.4.2, glibc 2.2.1, XFree86 4.0.2. The plugin does
work fine in Netscape 4.75.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

see bug 56464 -- apparently this is a compiler version issue...  are you using a
gcc >= 2.95 ?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

More precisely, are you using a Mozilla compiled with gcc >= 2.95?  (like one of
the 2.95 builds from mozilla.org)

Comment 3

[Vesa Halttunen]

I'm using a precompiled build from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.
Is there something I could do to get around this problem? I'm using gcc 2.95.2
here so I guess building Mozilla myself wouldn't help at all. I'm marking this
duplicate (couldn't find 56464 while searching since it was resolved) but I'd
still like to get some help with the issue =)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56464 ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

actually, it's only when you build mozilla with gcc >= 2.95 that you can get the
realplayer plugin to work...

So either building yourself or getting the -gcc2.95 builds from the mozilla.org
ftp site should do it.

Comment 5

[Vesa Halttunen]

Oh, that way :)... Thanks!

Comment 6

[shrirang khanzode]

verified duplicate