Ironfighter

Thank you for replying. I have tried to follow the instructions in the manual without any success. It seems to me I have installed version j2re1.4.2 in two locations. The first install was in /usr/local. This folder has a padlock? on iit when I view it in Konqueror. I then installed it in my home folder . This is the install that I am linked to in Konqueror (which is opening java applets). I suspect I am making a fundamental error somewhere (possibly to do with permissions which at this stage of my learning curve baffle me). According to Konqueror, I have two Mozilla folders in /usr/local/ - one called <Mozilla> and one called <Mozilla 1.7.2>. My attempts at enabling the installation follows: [root@localhost laurie]# cd home/laurie/j2re1.4.2 bash: cd: home/laurie/j2re1.4.2: No such file or directory [root@localhost laurie]# cd /home/laurie/j2re1.4.2 [root@localhost j2re1.4.2]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.2/plugins [root@localhost plugins]# ln -s/laurie/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so ln: invalid option -- / Try `ln --help' for more information. [root@localhost plugins]# ln -s/home/laurie/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so ln: invalid option -- / Try `ln --help' for more information. [root@localhost plugins]# cd /home/laurie/j2re1.4.2 [root@localhost j2re1.4.2]# ls bin/ ControlPanel.html INSTALL lib/ man/ README Welcome.html CHANGES COPYRIGHT javaws/ LICENSE plugin/ THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt [root@localhost j2re1.4.2]# cd /plugin bash: cd: /plugin: No such file or directory [root@localhost j2re1.4.2]# cd plugin [root@localhost plugin]# ls desktop/ i386/ [root@localhost plugin]# cd i386 [root@localhost i386]# ls mozilla/ netscape4/ [root@localhost i386]# cd mozilla [root@localhost mozilla]# ls libjavaplugin_oji.so [root@localhost mozilla]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins [root@localhost plugins]# ln -s/laurie/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so ln: invalid option -- / Try `ln --help' for more information. [root@localhost plugins]#

Pride comes before a fall. I thought I had Java enabled fully in both Mozilla and Epihany (which I do really like) and not in Konqueror. It turns out I can see java applets in Konqueror but not in Mozilla In Konqueror the path to Java executable is </home/laurie/j2re1.4.2/bin/java>. Can anyone tell me how to get Mozilla fixed up please? I don know what happens to all the ¨ln¨ commands I have tried via the terminal but if they don´t self destruct I must have a mountain of them somewhere . :D

I have become an Epiphany fan after trying Mozilla (which I still quite like), Konqueror, (Which I think if I new what I was doing would be an awesome browser), and Firefox which I gave up on in Linux because it kept on dissappearing somewhere into cyberspace. I have found that Epiphany has the best fonts on my machine, and runs flash, java etc without any hassles.

I fixed this - I am not quite sure how buy here is what I did. Installed Kscd Downloaded and installed Mplayer and its codecs. Installed Bit Media Player. Installed Amorek. Installed Xmms. My computer wouldn run Amorek or Xmms properly so I got rid of them. Downloaded and Installed Grip. Found our that I could play a CD through all the programmes left on my computer. Ripped tracks from Grip. Found out I could play the ripped files through any of the programmes left on my computer. Still couldn´t play the clips from the BBC - Mmmmm Decided to have a poke around in the Mandrake Control Centre - in particular the sound card driver which on my machine is 82801AA 810 Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller Found out I could choose a diffrent sound card which was snd -intel8xo. So I did. I was told I had to install ALSA so I did. Rebooted the computer (because I am a refugee from windows) Tested that I could play ripped files and CD´s from all my programmes above - yes. Went to the BBC sports page and clicked on the Audio/video links and then Watched and Listened to Sam Allardyce bemoaning his sides performance against Blackburn Rovers!!!! :D

I also found this information - is the patch something I should try? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd...ary/008251.html

I think I have succeeded in downloading the codes. I have them in the following directories: Usr/Lib/Win32, Usr/Local/Lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs, Usr/Lib/Real, Usr/LOcal/Lib/Codecs. (just making sure) :D However still no luck - just one question - Ihave Real Player Version 10 installed , why is the terminal message referring to Real Player 9? Here are the latest terminal responses to the two commands you suggested: [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://www.mymotivator. com/_realmedia/testfile.ram MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 873.5 MHz (Family: 6, St epping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/cod ecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or d irectory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.mymotivator.com/_realaudio/testfile.rm. Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Core dumped ;) Exiting... (End of file) [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer -ao arts stream.dump MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 668.9 MHz (Family: 6, St epping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/cod ecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or d irectory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing stream.dump. Cache fill: 0.13% (10788 bytes) REAL file format detected. ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973) Channels: 1 Samplerate: 8000 avg byte/sec: 6500 Block align: 232 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [0] [0] [e8] [0] [0] [0] =========================== Clip info: name: Test RealAudio File author: Chip Lowell copyright: ©1999 MyMotivator.com comment: RealEncoder 5.1.0.32 Win95 4.10 1998 Pentium MMX 1 Live = 0 ac = 6.5 K bps Voice abw = 6.5 asi = 8000 abi = 16 abo = 16 ach = 1 ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.so.6.0' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0, /usr/ local/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0 Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.so.6.0. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'sipr3260.dll' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr3260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll, /us r/local/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr3260.dll. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.shlb' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.shlb, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.shlb, /usr/loca l/lib/win32/sipr.shlb Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.shlb. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec for audio format 0x72706973. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) [laurie@localhost laurie]$

Thanks for your replies. Still no Joy - perhaps I don have all the necessary codecs installed? [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer -dumpstream -playlist http://www.mymotivator.com/_realmedia/testfile.ram MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 669.1 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.mymotivator.com/_realaudio/testfile.rm. Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Core dumped ;) Exiting... (End of file) [laurie@localhost laurie]$ cd /home/laurie [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer stream.dump MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 668.8 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing stream.dump. Cache fill: 0.13% (10788 bytes) REAL file format detected. ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973) Channels: 1 Samplerate: 8000 avg byte/sec: 6500 Block align: 232 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [0] [0] [e8] [0] [0] [0] =========================== Clip info: name: Test RealAudio File author: Chip Lowell copyright: ©1999 MyMotivator.com comment: RealEncoder 5.1.0.32 Win95 4.10 1998 Pentium MMX 1 Live = 0 ac = 6.5 Kbps Voice abw = 6.5 asi = 8000 abi = 16 abo = 16 ach = 1 ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.so.6.0' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0 Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.so.6.0. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'sipr3260.dll' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr3260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr3260.dll. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.shlb' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.shlb, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.shlb, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.shlb Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.shlb. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec for audio format 0x72706973. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer -ao arts stream.dump MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 668.8 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing stream.dump. Cache fill: 0.13% (10788 bytes) REAL file format detected. ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973) Channels: 1 Samplerate: 8000 avg byte/sec: 6500 Block align: 232 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [0] [0] [e8] [0] [0] [0] =========================== Clip info: name: Test RealAudio File author: Chip Lowell copyright: ©1999 MyMotivator.com comment: RealEncoder 5.1.0.32 Win95 4.10 1998 Pentium MMX 1 Live = 0 ac = 6.5 Kbps Voice abw = 6.5 asi = 8000 abi = 16 abo = 16 ach = 1 ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.so.6.0' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0 Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.so.6.0. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'sipr3260.dll' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr3260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr3260.dll. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.shlb' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.shlb, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.shlb, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.shlb Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.shlb. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec for audio format 0x72706973. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) [laurie@localhost laurie]$

Thank you Well I have installed all the codecs from PLF except I couldn´t find Mplayer codecs and urpmi wouldn´t let me install the helixplayer-helix- codecs. Here is the result of urpmq - The following packages contain codecs: helixplayer-helix-codecs helixplayer-real-codecs real-codecs win32-codecs xanim-codecs I installed the bottom 4 (because I always do things back to front :D ) then - urpmi helixplayer-helix-codecs The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: helixplayer-real-codecs-1.0.1.436-1plf.i586 (due to conflicts with helixplayer-helix-codecs) (y/N) So I said N Still got video but no sound. Do you think I could have installed Real Player twice in two different locations?

I think I´ve done it - here is what shows up when I type äbout:plugins in either Mozilla or Epiphany address bar: Installed plug-ins Find more information about browser plug-ins at Netscape.com. Help for installing plug-ins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible File name: nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.552 built with gcc 3.2.0 on May 13 2005 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes QuickTime Plug-in 6.0, Windows Media Player Plugin are supported by mplayerplug-in File name: mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in 2.70 Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled video/quicktime Quicktime mov Yes video/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes image/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes video/quicktime Quicktime mp4 Yes video/quicktime Quicktime - Session Description Protocol sdp Yes application/x-quicktimeplayer Quicktime mov Yes video/x-ms-asf-plugin Windows Media asf,asx Yes video/x-msvideo AVI avi Yes video/msvideo AVI avi Yes application/x-mplayer2 WMV wmv Yes video/x-ms-wm MSNBCPlayer asf Yes video/x-ms-asf Windows Media asf,asx Yes video/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv Yes video/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp Yes video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx Yes audio/x-ms-wax Windows Media wax Yes audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma Yes application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx Yes audio/wav Microsoft wave file wav Yes audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file wav Yes application/smil SMIL smil Yes video/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes video/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes video/x-mpeg2 MPEG2 mpv2,mp2ve Yes audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes audio/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes audio/mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes audio/x-mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes audio/mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes audio/x-mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes audio/mp3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes video/mp4 MPEG 4 Video mp4 Yes application/x-ogg Ogg Vorbis Media ogg Yes audio/ogg Ogg Vorbis Audio ogg Yes application/ogg Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora ogg Yes video/fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes video/x-fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes video/vnd.vivo VivoActive viv,vivo Yes Shockwave Flash File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes Default Plugin File name: libnullplugin.so The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled * All types .* Yes I tried opening Real Player in a terminal window again and got this message: [laurie@localhost laurie]$ artsd realplay Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) Is this a clue? :D

Thanks again but I think the Penguin is out of his depth - wow [laurie@localhost laurie]$ mplayer -ao arts -playlist http://www.mymotivator.co m/_realmedia/testfile.ram MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 858.7 MHz (Family: 6, St epping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/config Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Reading /home/laurie/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/laurie/.mplayer/cod ecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/laurie/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or d irectory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.mymotivator.com/_realaudio/testfile.rm. Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.mymotivator.com Resolving www.mymotivator.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.mymotivator.com[216.87.21.154]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.mymotivator.com Cache fill: 0.13% (10788 bytes) REAL file format detected. ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973) Channels: 1 Samplerate: 8000 avg byte/sec: 6500 Block align: 232 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [0] [0] [e8] [0] [0] [0] =========================== Clip info: name: Test RealAudio File author: Chip Lowell copyright: ©1999 MyMotivator.com comment: RealEncoder 5.1.0.32 Win95 4.10 1998 Pentium MMX 1 Live = 0 ac = 6.5 Kbps Voice abw = 6.5 asi = 8000 abi = 16 abo = 16 ach = 1 ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.so.6.0' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.so.6.0 Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.so.6.0. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'sipr3260.dll' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr3260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr3260.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr3260.dll. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb' Error: /usr/lib/RealPlayer9/Codecs/sipr.shlb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory opening win32 dll 'sipr.shlb' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: sipr.shlb, /usr/lib/win32/sipr.shlb, /usr/local/lib/win32/sipr.shlb Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec sipr.shlb. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec for audio format 0x72706973. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file)

Thanks again : I tried your suggestions with no luck. Both commands opened up mozilla then Realplayer. Here is a sample of what I did at the terminal window - is the warning a clue as to what is wrong? [laurie@localhost laurie]$ artsdsp realplay http://www.mymotivator.com/_realmedia/testfile.ram Warning: LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libdl.so.2" [laurie@localhost laurie Real Player opened in a new window and then the sound file. The bar was moving from left to right but there was no further sound. I have noticed a very slight ¨beep¨ prior to the buffereing process commencing. Love your penguins! WIsh I could get them chirping here.

Thanks for your response. I already had the sound system set as you suggested so this doesn appear to be the problem. As for your second option could you tell me how to do this please.

I like to listen the Video/Audio clips on the BBC sports pages. For this I need Real Player so I have just installed it. When I mouse click on a link in Mozilla (1.7.8) the programme downloads the file and plays the video clip but with no sound. I have tested the system sound via the menu system>configuration>KDE>sound >sound system. When I click on the Test Sound tab I get the KDE start up sound. I can run Realplayer from a terminal window but can only get video here also. When I type about:plugins in the address bar of Mozilla I get : Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible File name: nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.552 built with gcc 3.2.0 on May 13 2005 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes If by some chance you get the notion I seem to know what I am doing it is an illusion. I am new to linux and have just followed some tips from Google. If anyone can help me get this going I would really appreciate it. PS I can play Audio CDś - I just downloaded and installed Kscd using RPMdrake. I am really staring to enjoy linux since I installed Mandrake.

I not really sure but Ive got a feeling I did something wrong at that stage. I noticed a line when the machine is loading linux that says "setting up host big - excup FAILED

I am new to linux (4 months). I tried Fedora but have recently switched to Mandrake. I had gotten used to seeing ¨myname@localhost$" in a Fedora terminal window. I now get myname@(none)$. Have I missed something in the installation or is this OK?