Plugins for Helixplayer or RealPlayer

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Plugins for Helixplayer or RealPlayer
started by: RigasW

Posted by RigasW on June 06 2007,20:50

Hi,

I use Firefox to listen to internet radio that comes in the MP3 format.

But some broadcasters (like BBC ...) do need the RealPlayer to listen to ...

So I installed the UCI Package for RealPlayer ... the Software is copied to /ramdisk/opt ..
but cannot be started via the mydsl menue (simply nothing happens if you try to. Nor is it listed under the firefox plugins ...)

The same is the case with HelixPlayer, which I tried next.

I am familiar with remastering. So, what do I have to do to get one of those players installed? Where do I have to copy the *.xpt and *.so files to, so that the plugins do work?

Rigas

Posted by RigasW on June 07 2007,09:40

Well,

in the meantime I found out that I had to copy the files *.xpt und *.so to the
/usr/local/firefox/plugins folder.

After restarting firefox and entering "about:plugins" in firefox I get the information that the "Helix DNA Player" is installed for the rmp suffix.

So I went to the BBC web site and tried to listen to the world service:

I was asked wether I would use Realplayer or the Microsoft Player. I entered Real Player .... and got the message:

"could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path"

I had started firefox from a command shell so I could read more
error messages

ramdisk/opt/helixplayer/hxplay.bin:
error while loading shared libraries
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Right, I do not have this library on my computer.
Where do I get it?

Rigas

Regards,

Rigas

Posted by Juanito on June 07 2007,12:17

You could try going to the < "search the contents of packages" > section of the Debian site - enter the lib name in the "keyword" section and see if it turns up in one of the deb packages

Edit - libgtk2.0-0 contains this file. Maybe the GTK2 extension in the repository will solve your problem?

Posted by RigasW on June 07 2007,13:10

Hi Juanito,

which myDSL package exactly do you mean?

Thanks in advance.

Rigas

Posted by Juanito on June 07 2007,13:19

< gtk2-0705.unc >

Posted by RigasW on June 07 2007,16:18

Hi Juanito,

I installed as adivsed.
Your hint helped in that way, that the message about the missing library does not show any more. I even can start HelixPlayer by itself now.

Only from within Firefox I still get the message:

"could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path"

Any ideas?

Rigas

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 07 2007,19:57

You could try something like

Code Sample

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/helixplayer
firefox

Or drop a symlink in /opt/bin (if using DSL 3.3+)

Posted by RigasW on June 08 2007,19:14

Hi,

thanks for the idea ... but neither path nor symlink helped for the plugin to start.

What works is realplayer as stand-alone player:

First install the library (see above)
Then use the installed library to convert to GTK2 (using the myDSL menue).
Then start realplayer from the mydsl menue und answer the installation questions.

And now Real Player can be used as stand alone player.

What I do not understand is that the plugin files from the realplayer.uci package are called nphelix.* (so the realplayer plugins register not as realplayer but as helix plugins ... I suppose an error in the package ...)

Thanks for your help.

Rigas

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 08 2007,19:25

Did you try naming the symlink (or wrapper) hxplay or realplay?
From your error msg, it seems that FF is looking something to execute...?

Are you sure about that naming convention? Where are they installed? Those plugins are probably not even seen by FF, unless there is a link somewhere. I think a directory for plugins was ~/.mozilla/plugins

But I'm just really shooting out some ideas here, since hardly use plugins (cept for 1)

Posted by RigasW on June 23 2007,11:17

Hi,

sorry that I did not answer for a while ... but I had a lot of work to do.

Now it works:

First install the library (see above)
Then use the installed library to convert to GTK2 (using the myDSL menue).
Then install Realplayer with myDSL.
And then I did as advised on the mozilla plugin web page:
< Mozilla Plugin Documentation >

After this you can start the RealPlayer Plugin from within a Website: First you get a message, that you have to run it standaloone ... but then, within the same window, the plugin opens.

Rigas