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Re: How to get SMIL/Real Player to work (in Linux)
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Matthew Delco wrote:
> and added a feature so that it automatically created this redirect
> behavior without creating any temporary files.
>
> However, this didn't solve the problem. I then suspected, and later
> confirmed using a homemade 'plugin', that the problem exists because
> Netscape isn't passing the CGI URL to RealPlayer--this is why RealPlayer
> starts up and just sits there. To fix the problem, in Linux anyway, add a
> "%u" (including quotes!) after the realplay name (e.g.,
> /usr/X11/bin/realplay "%u").
Which should work for windows too -- albeit by fiddling with the browser's
mime config. This leaves the Mac as the exception. As implemented, the NN
Mac GUI to configure helper apps doesn't allow for coding parms/options...
but if you now have reduced the problem to "successfully" passing the CGI
URL to RealPlayer, perhaps one can achieve that with AppleScript. For
testing, do you have a URL to connect to?
As fallback, we can advise MAC users to launch RealPlayer manually with
the live-broadcast CGI URL, no?
-- Denis