103775 - rtsp:// protocol opens realplayer app rather than playing in page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Plugins Graveyard :: RealPlayer (Real), defect)

Description

[Arun Ranganathan]

Sending over to plugins for a first look.
If you look at the latest builds, you'll see that the above page spawns the
RealPlayer application in lieu of opening inside the webpage. The page contains
a standard object / embed tag combination.  However the "src" attribute for the
data is an "rtsp" URL.  Note that Netscape 6.01 (e.g. m18) didn't behave this
way.  Netscape 6.01 used to open the page in a web page window.  For some
reason, the latest builds *including Netscape 6.1 rtm* display a regression in
the sense that the RealPlayer application is invoked.  Current nightly builds
actually draw part of the plugin in the page window, but still invoke the
application.  This is a regression.
I'm CC'ing dougt since there *could* be a Necko related reason for this behavior.

Comment 1

[Arun Ranganathan]

Attachment: HTML page showing rtsp protocol used in src for embed tag.

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

Arun, I think this bug is WONTFIX because it's the Real plugin that internally
decided to render the slim-down inline plugin and popup the external player
instead of rending the movie in-place. I don't think there is anything we can do
from our side.

Mozilla appears to be rendering the plugin fine as the controler appears. But,
the plugin is deciding it doesn't want to be rendered for some reason. I think
Microsoft's Media player does something similar in some situations. My guess is
that there was some technical reason Real decided to do this.

Comment 3

[Arun Ranganathan]

Hmmm, interesting ... I wonder if they (Real) couldn't stomach something about
streams/necko land and wrote their XPCOM component to do this.  If peterl's
right, then we can't do much.  I'll wait for other folks to agree before we shut
this one out :-(.  BTW peterl, sorry for CC'ing you (you must've got a ton of
bugmail on this one -- I deleted you later).

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Arun, do you have a contact at Real?  

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Actually, I think it may be because our plugin streaming API had so many
problems early on. Since many of those issues are now fixed, perhaps something
can be done with the Real plugin. However, if there are still plugin streaming
bugs in the browser, let's try to fix those.

Comment 6

[Leston Buell]

Clicking on the URL crashes on me using Linux trunk build 2001-10-30-21. 
Platform->All?

Comment 7

[Arun Ranganathan]

I will CC folks at Real in e-mail and see if I can get some contribution on this.

Comment 8

[Peter Lubczynski]

*** Bug 83742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think this bug has been recently FIXED. If you disagree, please re-open.

Comment 10

[David Kelman]

no, still a problem on RC1, 20020417

Comment 11

[Peter Lubczynski]

testcase WFM on WinXP 2002050606

Comment 12

[shrirang khanzode]

david kelman..pls use a recent build. this certainly wfm on 0507 build on nt 
with realOne. plugin appears embedded.