RealPlayer 10 in FC6: Sound, But No Picture

[Ian Malone]

On 13/01/07, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> Just installed RealPlayer 10. No dependencies detected. Setup Assistant
> ran through. But when I go to play a video, the mplayer-plugin wants to
> load, and of course it chokes. But more than that:
>
> When I download a "test video" from Real.com, I get sound, but no picture.
>
> When I go to play certain videos (specifically at foxnews.com), again I
> get sound, but no picture.
>
> On a hunch, I removed totem--completely. It was never doing anything for
> me anyway. (That's right--I never did get totem to play /any/ of my
> DVD's, and I have gnome-cd to play audio cd's.)
>
> That removed a lot of useless plugins. But it still didn't solve the
> problem of my not being able to play RealAudio or RealVideo content. Again:
>
> Download response: Sound, but no picture. Should have picture and sound.
>
> Site-visit response: Either sound, but no picture, or else mplayer tries
> to load, and then stops. (Mplayer will play other plug-in videos, so
> long as they're not too big. I tested that at apple.com's movie trailer
> site.)
>
> What hidden dependency have I missed?
>

First, as Nigel Henry says, you'll want to remove the Realplayer
part of the mplayer-plugin. If you're still not getting a picture try
loading the stream in stand-alone Realplayer (not through the
Firefox plugin), if you get no picture there you may want to try
turning off SELINUX.

-- 
imalone