RealOne Plugin

[Yosuke Arai]

Punani,

Do you mean the html tags like this?
<EMBED SRC="http://www.such-and-such.com/such-and-such.rm" 
AUTOSTART="TRUE" REPEAT="TRUE">
If so, I don't think OW supports this yet. Nor does Camino, 
Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, IE or iCab. As a web browser for Mac OS X, only 
Safari 1.2.x seems to support autoplay of embedded RealMedia files 
(1.1.x or earlier did not).

If you visit such webpages with Safari, the embedded RealMedia file is 
automatically downloaded to your home download directory (typically, 
your Desktop). Then RealOne player is launched and the downloaded clip 
starts, if you allow Safari to open "safe" files after download. I 
personally don't like this behavior because you'd have to trash the 
downloaded file every time. Besides, you'd have to wait for some time 
before the clip starts, especially when RealOne player was not 
launched. I would rater not welcome if OmniWeb would support this 
autoplay and behave just like Safari. 

BTW, do you find webpages with a really enjoyable RealMedia clip 
"embedded"? As for me, I find most of the embedded music/video clips 
that are autoplayed not necessary for me, quite annoying sometimes.

Yosuke Arai


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:08:43 -0700, Punani Tsunami wrote:
> Aloha:
> 
> Embedded Real[Player] media is unplayable, rather OmniWeb 5 pops up 
> with an alert that tells me that:
> 
> "A required component is missing to play the content you 
> selected...launch RealOne Player and download the necessary 
> component."
> 
> If I choose to update the app, apparently Real cannot find an handler 
> for text/html?? Is there a workaround for this? Coincidentally, this 
> problem does not manifest itself in 4.5.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Punani
> 
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