[Wylug-help] Configuring Netscape's Plugins - Realplayer

SimonWoodSimon.Wood@pace.co.uk SimonWoodSimon.Wood at pace.co.uk
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:33:40 +0100


Came across a problem getting Netscape (4.6, Linux) to work with Channel 4's
Big Brother web site last night.
(http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother)

Although I have Realplay installed (as a seperate application) it was still
suggesting that I should download the plug in. I looked at the frame source
(and didn't really understand it) but the URL pointing to the feed would
happily start realplay as an external application - this leads me to believe
that I have Netscape's 'applications' entries set up right.

The (sub) window displayed says 'Click here to download plugin'. This phrase
is not in the frame source, so suggests it's an internal message from
Netscape itself or from 'Plugger'.

The only other thing that I can think of is that it is trying to include the
camera image within the Netscape window and is failing as it can only use a
external application. The background is a type(?)
'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin' 

	        <OBJECT ID=video1
CLASSID="clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA" WIDTH=240 HEIGHT=180>
	        <param name="_ExtentX" value="5080">
	        <param name="_ExtentY" value="3810">
	        <param name="AUTOSTART" value="-1">
	        <param name="SHUFFLE" value="0">
	        <param name="PREFETCH" value="0">
	        <param name="NOLABELS" value="0">
	        <param name="SRC"
value="http://bbukhurl.real.com/ramhurl.ram?file=bbenc6.rm">
	        <param name="CONTROLS" value="ImageWindow">
	        <param name="CONSOLE" value="Clip1">
	        <param name="LOOP" value="0">
	        <param name="NUMLOOP" value="0">
	        <param name="CENTER" value="0">
	        <param name="MAINTAINASPECT" value="0">
	        <param name="BACKGROUNDCOLOR" value="#000000"><embed
SRC="http://bbukhurl.real.com/ramhurl.ram?file=bbenc6.rm"
type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" CONSOLE="Clip1" CONTROLS="ImageWindow"
HEIGHT="144" WIDTH="192" AUTOSTART="true"></embed>
	        </OBJECT>

Anyone got any suggestions?
Simon Wood

Ps. I can watch the cameras by entering the URL directly, it's just not the
obvious way to do it.