Closed Bug 25025 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

[BLOCKER] Cannot play realaudio files on Linux

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: shrir, Assigned: serhunt)

References

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URL
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Details

I have realplayer 5.0 installed on my 4.x communicator.
Tried this with build (2000012108M13). Please note that I tried removing the 
existing plugins folder under the mozilla installation as well as placing the 
.so files in the 4.x plugins directory.

To recreate the problem, please do the following steps:

1.Install and launch the browser
2.Go to the url mentioned above.
3. Observe that a grey area opens up at the top with "embed" written.
4. The audio file does not play.
Corrrected the platform.
OS: Windows NT → Linux
Invalid. Existing Linux plug-in binaries won't work on Moz/Nav5 Linux. Linux 
plug-ins must be upgraded to use GTK instead of Motif. See 
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/plugin.html#linux. When RealNetworks releases an 
upgraded RealPlayer plug-in for Mozilla, we should test that and open any bugs 
we find.

P.S. When filing plug-in bugs, please be sure to include the plug-in version 
number. Thanks!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Verified Invalid.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Should I be reopening this ? But this was marked invalid. I have tried 
realplayer 7.0 with today's build, but it does not work as mentioned here 
originally( now no grey area appears, the page is blank). (2000090808m18)
URL: http://www.prometheus-music.com/gecko... → http://www.prometheus-music.com/gecko...
1) How are you supposed to install Real Player plugin in Mozilla under Linux?  I
tried installing the RPM and then copying the raclass.zip and rpnp.so files from
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins to Mozilla's plug-in directory - no luck.

2) According to http://www.mozilla.org/docs/plugin.html#linux Nav 4.x plugin
binaries won't work in Mozilla.  Why does Flash Player 4 actually work in both?
1 Antti, I did exactly what you have tried. Realplayer, by default gets 
installed under 4.x plugins directory. I too manually copied the rpnp.so file to 
mozilla plugins folder.
2 I too have the same question as you do, why does shockwave work and others do 
not work(acrobat, realplayer). As per the document you have pointed to, unless 
plugin vendors release mozilla compatible plugins, we should not expect plugins 
to work on linux. And I suppose this was the reason that this bug was marked 
INVALID.
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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