266350 - Plug in search return..NO SUITABLE PLUG IN ie:real player

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Mark Sedgwick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Plug in search return..NO SUITABLE PLUG IN ie:real player

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. tried to install plug-in directly
2. tried to install real player idependently from seperate website ie
news.bbc.co.uk return-same
3. tried automatic installation by Opera return-succesful

Actual Results:  
Had to install from real.com the player

Expected Results:  
detected i never had plug-in and directed me to suitable download page at
mozilla.com- or make the plug in a standard feature in future releases

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

plugin finder is firefox specific, changing component

Comment 2

[Eric Martin]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019
Firefox/0.10.1 

I also receive the "No suitable plugin" as well.

I do not have Real Player installed.  I don't believe Real Player is available
as a plugin unless you have the downloaded version from the real.com site.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

jst - any idea when Real will get added? Or should we add a manual install fo rnow?

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I added a manual installation entry for Real just last night. The XPI's are in
the works, but no official ETA on that yet. So far we'll offer the real plugin
for the mimetypes "audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"  and "audio/x-pn-realaudio",
others can be added as needed (if anyone's got a list of real player mimetypes,
please do share)...

Comment 5

[webmaster]

Same problem, but manual installation doesn't solve the problem, I still get the
message in FireFox that I need the plug-in

Comment 6

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I see this - we install real, yet the dialog still popus up

Comment 7

[chance]

Mime types:
'rm'   => 'audio/x-pn-realaudio',		
'ra'   => 'audio/x-pn-realaudio',
'rv'   => 'video/vnd.rn-realvideo'
This one also appears to work as a type=<mime type> in an embed tag.
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin


Problem when embed tag is used to embed player in html page.  If player src= <an .rm file> there is no mime-type to plugin mapping.  See Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> View & Edit Actions shows no action or mime type for the .rm file extension.  Only .ram file for real player has entry.

Adding type="correct mime-type" attribute to embed tag will launch real player but firefox still displays "Additional plugins are required ..." message and an Install Missing Plugin button.

Problem is either real plugin installation does not add extension/mime-type/plugin mapping OR firefox does not appear to allow user adding own extension/mime-type/plugin mapping via Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> View & Edit Actions 

Here is how I came accross the problem.
Helix server serves streaming .rm files and does not need a .ram file to handle the translation of http (browser acceptable) request to rtsp stream delivery, that task is performed by the Helix server automagically. However links to the .rm files in embeded player will always show missing plug.

Here is some embed player html to repeat problem.
<!-- begin embed player -->
    <object width="320" height="285">
	    <param name="src" value="http://streaming.msu.edu/ramgen/storemedia/streaming/richar78/wmsu/060402_verdehr_sheng.rm">
	<param name="autoplay" value="true">
	<param name="controller" value="true">
	<param name="bgcolor" value="#FF9900">
	<embed src="http://streaming.msu.edu/ramgen/storemedia/streaming/richar78/wmsu/060402_verdehr_sheng.rm" 
	        type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"
		autostart="true" loop="false" 
		width="320" height="285" 
		controller="true" 
		bgcolor="#FF9900">
	</embed>
    </object>
  <!-- end embed player --

Comment 8

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I don't think this old bug is valid any more, and realplayer is being removed from PFS.