[mythtv-users] MythBrowser and Real Player

Robin Smith 1canuck2 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 14:04:03 UTC 2008


>> I want to use MythBrowser to get to some BBC Radio 4 broadcasts that
>> use the BBC iPlayer (which is just real player as far as I can tell).
>>
>> When I go to the page, I can click on the "Listen" link and it brings
>> up a new window with "To play SHOW please first install Real Player."
>> But I have Real Player installed (at least it works in Firefox). Can I
>> get Real Player recognized in MythBrowser such that it will work? Or
>> am I missing something config-wise...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robin
>
> Mythbrowser isn't your normal browser and cannot have real player installed.
>  I went nuts chasing that one.  I ended up editing the main menu to launch
> firefox but did it in the wrong place so it got lost in an update.  Now I
> just CTRL-F2 and start Firefox.
> Allen

MythStream does not show up in the OpenSuse Packman repo :(

I thought I could switch MythBrowser to use FireFox but it doesn't
seem to work. I am trying to get it working from within MythTV without
having to switch out.

I'll go hunt for Firefox 3 integration with Myth


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