Closed
Bug 91092
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Real Player Plugin Broken for Mozilla 0.92
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: ammulder, Assigned: serhunt)
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Details
Using Red Hat Linux 7.1 with kernel 2.4.6, Mozilla 0.92 (via RPM). Downloaded RealPlayer basic, community supported (i.e. UNIX) player for Linux 2.x with libc6 via RPM. Installed RPM. Copied "rpnp.so" from /usr/local/netscape/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Started Mozilla, went to Help: About Plug-ins RealPlayer Entry shows: ------------ ЄоџП??@`. CPeэ@ЄоџП?R;AьоџПќоџП File name: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so Heэ@ Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes ------------ That is, the plugin name is garbage, and the about text is garbage. Contrast this to the Plugger 3.2, Shockwave Flash, and Default Plugin entries which are all clear text. Next, went to http://www.broadcast.com/ and then followed "radio" link. Selected KSAN FM. Popup window declared that I had an invalid configuration, but offered direct link to streaming feed for Linux etc. users. Clicked the link, and a download/save to disk window appeared. MIME type appeared to be audio/x-pn-realaudio (contrast to plugin registered for audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin). Tried to use Edit:Preferences:Navigator:Helper Apps to configure realplayer for audio/x-pn-realaudio, but was unable to get that to work as well (it would popup a window too fast to see, but not actually launch RealPlayer. Not that I really know which application to link it to: I tried /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay). Finally, if I right-click and copy the link location from the broadcast.com direct link to streaming feed, and then launch RealPlayer and paste in the URL, it works. So RealPlayer itself is fully functional, it's just the plugin that is broken. Finally, as directed by the newsgroup, I did not copy the "raclass.zip" file from the Netscape plugins directory to the Mozilla plugins directory. However when I tried that in the past, it didn't make any difference.
Reporter, to find out which executable to place in your helper apps configuration, type 'which realplay' at the command line (I believe it should be /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay and not the lib path you used). You also appear to have two bugs here: "real player plugin doesn't work, about:plugins shows garbage" and "cannot configure audio/x-pn-realaudio through helper apps to be handled by real player." I've always copied the raclass.zip file to my plugins directory (both under mandrake and debian) and don't know if it makes a difference but it certainly didn't give me problems. Lastly, the real player plugin has a known issue with mozilla builds compiled with older versions of gcc (see bug 56464 for details) so I would recommend testing again with a mozilla build compiled with gcc 2.95 (available from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2001-07-16-09-trunk/). Please report your findings on this bug.
Comment 2•23 years ago
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Dave, this is about a _plugin_, not a helper....
Comment 3•23 years ago
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I copied rpnp.so and raclass.zip into /usr/local/mozilla/plugins and went to yahoo then i chose realplayer and i got a download window. I told it to use realplay (located in /usr/X11R6/bin and i saw the introductory video fine build: today's branch
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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Okay, more info... It turned out that the "helper app" failure was spurious. I have a dual-head configuration, and real player dies if I try to start it on the second screen, but the helper app configuration works OK if I start Mozilla on the first screen. As well, I tried copying the "raclass.zip" into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it didn't changs the problem in any way. So, let's go back to the main issue. Mozilla shows garbage for the RealPlayer plugin in the Help:About Plug-ins screen. That is certainly undesirable, at a minimum. Also, the RealPlayer plugin does not register itself for the correct MIME types, and does not get invoked properly unless you set up the "realplay" executable as a helper app (for which you don't need a plugin at all, right?).
That's correct, helper apps and plugins are separate. The fact that realplayer doesn't set up a helper app by default is a separate issue from this bug (there's probably already something out there for it... probably a general helper apps bug). As to the plugin problem, did you try with a gcc 2.95 build? You're problem isn't _exactly_ the same as the one in bug 56464 but it may well be related.
resolving as dup of bug 88214 for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88214 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 7•22 years ago
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mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd "massdupverification"
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•2 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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