STILL TRYING TO GET STREAMING VIDEO WORKING

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Originally Posted by eco2geek

For those running hard disk installs of Knoppix (I'm actually using Kanotix BH5 and using Mozilla as my main browser):

There is a Debian "wrapper" for RealPlayer 8, but you have to add a site to /etc/apt/sources.list to get it (see this thread for more info). After adding it, you can run "apt-get install realplayer" and the "wrapper" starts up, tells you where to go to download the realplayer binary (it's an RPM file), has you specify where on your system you downloaded it, and proceeds to install it. (I don't recall having to do anything to get Mozilla to use it.)

That was all well and good until "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" decided to ditch the RealPlayer format and go with WMF. So here's a big thank you to pau1knopp for the timely mention of the Mplayer plugin for Mozilla. Running "apt-get install mozilla-mplayer" was all it took to install both Mplayer and the Mozilla plugin! And it works beautifully.

The output from apt-get:

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root@badonkadonk:/home/andrew# apt-get install mozilla-mplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libasound2 libasound2-dev libdirectfb-0.9-20 libdivxdecore0 libfaad2-0 libgcc1 libggi2 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libmad0 libmad0-dev libpostproc0 libstdc++5 libtheora0 libxvidcore4 mplayer-386 slang1 slang1-dev Suggested packages: libasound2-doc libggi-target-emu libggi-target-monotext libggimisc2 w32codecs mplayer-doc Recommended packages: libggi-target-x libggi-target mplayer-fonts The following NEW packages will be installed: libdirectfb-0.9-20 libdivxdecore0 libfaad2-0 libggi2 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libpostproc0 libtheora0 libxvidcore4 mozilla-mplayer mplayer-386 The following packages will be upgraded: libasound2 libasound2-dev libgcc1 libmad0 libmad0-dev libstdc++5 slang1 slang1-dev 8 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 927 not upgraded. Need to get 6449kB of archives. After unpacking 11.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

I guess it's using the Win32 codecs for xine I manually installed to /usr/lib/win32.

root@Daggerwing:/home/damn# apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mozilla-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-custom (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-386 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-586 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-686 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-k6 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-k7 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-powerpc (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-g4 (>= 0.92) but it is not installable or
mplayer-nogui (>= 0.92) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

i'm facing some errors..

It sounds like you're missing a download location for mplayer from your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file -- you can use the very same one mentioned to get the realplayer "wrapper" -- (which didn't occur to me last night). Add this...

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

...to "sources.list" then try an "apt-get update" and "apt-get -s install mozilla-mplayer" (it seems wise to try a "dry run" before you actually install something) and then if there's no errors, an "apt-get install mozilla-mplayer" and let us know how it went.

Sorry for the late reply, I had been tending to other matters. Anyhow, it was a hard drive install that I applied the realplayer10 app to. Second, to get realplayer to run in mozilla, you would need to copy 2 files (nphelix.so & nphelix.xpt) to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. That was all it took for me, iirc. I may have done some additional tweaking but I'll have to find them.