I've tried it again and instead of using Terminal, opened Real Player from the drop down menu and pasted the URL into that while the original BBC window was open and it worked.
Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk To: "Bev Nicolson" bnicolson@operamail.com, main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Real Player Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:57:03 +0100 (BST)
On 28-Jul-07 14:47:29, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I think I get it now (mostly) but do I save it on the desktop or open another tab in Firefox? And what does the realplayer command in terminal do? It didn't seem to recognise it... [puzzled look goes here] Bev.
When you entered the command, did you enter "realplayer" or "realplay"?
The commmand to start RealPlayer is 'realplay', as in my original response:
realplay http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/ video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.ram
[all one line] where what follows "realplay " is the URL you get when you save it from "Open in stand alone player".
So, if you entered 'realplayer' nothing would happen (or. if it did, it would be the wrong thing).
On the other hand, if you really did enter 'realplay', then it is likely that the command 'realplay' is not in your PATH. You can check this by entering the ocmmand
which realplay
in the terminal. You should get a response like
$ which realplay /usr/bin/realplay
(realplay is usually in /usr/bin/). if you get a blank, then either RealPlayer is not installed, or your PATH when you open the terminal is not properly set up. In which case, write back and we'll try to help.
By the way, thanks to Richard Lewis for pointing out what's inside a ".ram" file. This has interesting consequences which can be usefully exploited, and I'll expound that in a reply to Richard.
Good luck with all this, Bev! Ted.
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