Helix plugin vs Mplayer-plugin

[Suredeath]

Even though I had the Essential-codecs from http://mplayerhq.hu installed, and FireFox's aboutlugins showed correctly all the available formats as "enabled" for mplayer-plugin, the majority of clips simply would start loading and then showed "stopped" before playing a single frame.

So I temporarily removed the mplayer-plugin (yum remove) and let Helix handle all realaudio and realvideo clips.

Now if I open a (ra/rm) clip I get an error (e.g.):

Error
Bad Transport (rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/tv/tros/2vandaag/bb.bulowmeacher.rm)

System has FC4 on it, kernel 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4, all packages updated yesterday.
Any ideas how to fix this?

[kettu]

afaik Helix does not handle .rm, you'll have to install realplayer for that. Helix is so limited in supported formats that it is moved from FC6 Core to Extras in favour of Totem (which is equally limited).

[Suredeath]

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible

File name: nphelix.so
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.581 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Feb 1 2006

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes

According to my aboutlugins, that is... on my own system (a Gentoo box). This is the plugin handling my rm/ra files. The only other thing installed is the Flash plugin. Weird...

Any ideas perhaps why the mplayer plugin might hickup on the Fedora machine? Both on wma/wmv and ra/rm? (mplayer DOES play rm/wmv files standalone)

Thx sofar. FC6 ?? wow I'm laggin' behind !!

[kettu]

I suppose there are some codecs that can be packaged in .rm that are supported by Helix, but definitely not the commercial Real media codecs.

The only problems I recall have been after firefox updates, but those caused the whole thing to disappear and were easily fixed by removing and reinstalling the plugin package.

FC6 has not yet been released, hopefully next month.