Cannot play RealVideo

[Alex Mauer]

Binary package hint: xine-plugin

The RealVideo movies linked at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html do not play at all.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 21 21:33:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xine-plugin 1.0.2-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: xine-plugin
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

Most of the plugins failed to play completely.

mozilla-mplayer sort of worked, but had some problems with aspect ratio.

When I chose to install mozilla-helix-player, it simply asked for installation of missing plugins again after a browser restart.

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

You will need to install realplayer to make the real video files work at that site

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

That would be helix-player, would it not?

If not, and I need to install something else, Ubuntu should not be prompting to install these plugins.

At best, it should not be prompting to install plugins that can't play this type of media.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Don't change statuses when both upstream and the ubuntu maintainer sets them.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

Are you saying this plugin works for the video in question? Because it doesn't.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

Upstream never set the status on this, but instead suggested that gecko-mediaplayer is not expected to play this video. If this is the case, it should not be prompted for installation when this video is accessed in the web browser.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Again, this is not a problem with the front end. If you change again the status I will have to ask for you to be be banned from launchpad.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

It is definitely a problem, though, as the media does not play. If you cannot accept that it is a problem with the 'front end', whatever that refers to, can you please assign it to the correct package instead of just claiming it's not a problem?

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.