[nflug] mplayer question

[Cyber Source]

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> anthonyriga wrote:
>>> I am running mplayer fedora 5. I want a certain
>>> webpage http://www.rai.it/ to use realplayer instead
>>> for mplayer to play .rm files how do I change these
>>> defaults? I look in firefox but can find anywhere to
>>> change. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>>>
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>> edit, preferences, downloads, view & edit actions. If your going to 
>> change the action per site, remove one if you already have it in 
>> there and then leave it to ask you, this way you can change the 
>> action on the fly per web site, etc..
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>
> Actually, it's a little trickier than that for FC5. You have to 
> install an mplayerplug-in version that disables the RealMedia. See here -
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#MPlayer
>
> From the site:
> "Thomas Chung of FedoraNEWS.org <http://fedoranews.org/> has kindly 
> made an Mplayer plugin rpm build available for Fedora Core 5 which is 
> "RealMedia disabled" (including the SMIL and OGG Mime Types) so that 
> it will not conflict with your RealPlayer installation. To obtain this 
> Mplayer plug-in for playing web-embedded movies and multimedia in your 
> web browser install Mplayer as described above and make sure your 
> sound card is configured properly for it, then open Firefox, go to 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayerplug-in/3.25/ and download (save 
> to disk) mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.fc5.i386.rpm 
> <http://fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayerplug-in/3.25/mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.fc5.i386.rpm>. 
> This should save the file to your home folder. If it saves the file to 
> your desktop instead go to your desktop and drag the file into your 
> "Home" folder. (Left mouse click on the file and drag it on top of 
> your "Home" folder while holding the left mouse button down. Then 
> release the mouse button.) Then open the terminal."
Must be an FC5 thing then. Running FC4 here with 
mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.fc4 and RealPlayer-10.0.5.756-20050513, the files 
on that sight play fine.

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