[techtalk] Netscape6 and RealPlayer8

[Subba Rao]

On  0, Erika Van Essche <uastis at ulyssis.org> wrote:
> 
> To the best of my knowledge realplayers can't be started from within
> netscape.
> I have tried several times over the past 2 years, but the plugin just does
> not seem to exist, on the other hand realplayer itself seems to work
> better under linux than it does in windows.
> 
> About the video, have you tried opening a local file with video or only
> streaming, because if your line isn't fast enough it may take a while
> before anything shows up on the screen.
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Netscape6 and RealPlayer8 on my Linux 2.2.18 system.
> > The browser is running fine with very few buggy (annoying) behaviour.
> > 
> > The RealPlayer8 opens only when you explicitly enter the URL. I cannot invoke
> > RealPlayer8 from Netscape6. In the "Edit->Preferences->Application helpers", I
> > have defined the RealPlayer8 type files. Besides, RealPlayer8 is working only
> > for audio and not for video. The following are the "Application helpers" that
> > I have defined.
> > 
> > 	audio/x-pn-realaudio             extensions: ra,rm,ram
> > 	audio/X-pn-realaudio-plugin      extensions: ra,rm,ram
> > 	application/smil                 extensions: smi
> > 
> > If anyone got Netscape6 and RealPlayer8 to work, please let me know how you
> > configured these tools.
> > 

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Netscape6 is a real beast when it comes
to using CPU and memory resources. The version 4.7x was pretty decent performer.
The version 6 doesn't reload properly and crashed about 5 times in the last 2
days. The CPU and memory monitors are going off the scale for each page update.

With such performance hit, I think I will have to pass up the RealPlayer
integration with Netscape6 for now.

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