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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: RealPlayer 8
From:       Peter Godman <pgodman () real ! com>
Date:       2001-03-05 1:11:50
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> I'll let the experts here answer most of the questions..
> 
> Regarding opening URL's with konqueror - simply run: kfmclient http://your.url

Great!
> 
> One thing that is a bit off topic, but still related to KDE - the multimedia
> part of Real Player, and KDE Multimedia...
> 
> As you might know, Peter, KDE is available to any known Unix - from Linux on X86
> all the way to S/390 (including Solaris, the various BSD's, SGI, HP-UX, SCO [not
> sure if it's still maintained though]) and I think it would be really useful for
> Real Networks to take advantage or the aRTs technology which is found on KDE

If aRTs exists everywhere, it would be a good addition, though not maybe a
subsitute for our many native implementations... we don't really like to
redistribute libraries for our code to work.  Still, we would like to
natively support any standard or de facto standard API.

> (and, according to some guys at the GNOME camps, they think to adopt it too),
> and the embedding technologies of KDE..
> 
> Another issue - aren't we - the Linux/Unix users allowed to enjoy the "Gold
> Pass"? why not?
> 

No, unfortunately this feature depends on features present in the player
itself which aren't implemented for unix yet.  I don't know when this will
be rectified, but I would love to...

Thanks, and thanks for the info!

Pete

> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Hetz Ben Hamo
> Hardware Research dept.
> Aduva Inc.
> 
> Peter Godman wrote:
> > 
> > And 2 more questions!  Sorry for forgetting them
> > 
> > 7.  What method should I use to extract the user's http proxy preferences
> >     from your browser... we support an option for the user to use
> >     "the same proxy as my browser uses" .
> > 
> > 8.  We give the user an option to add real.com and possibly other
> >     multimedia sites as a bookmark in their browser.  Do you share the
> >     netscape bookmark file, or should this be done in a different way.
> > 
> > Thanks again, and looking forward to fruitful cooperation!
> > Peter Godman
> > 
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Godman wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hello KFM developers.
> > >
> > > Please let me introduce myself:  I'm one of the software developers that
> > > works on RealPlayer for Unix.  I was browsing your archives and saw some
> > > discussion about RP and wanted to let you know who I am so that if you
> > > have RealPlayer/unix questions or issues, you have a contact at RN.
> > >
> > > However, I have an ulterior motive too:  I'm trying to write the next
> > > generation of browser integration for RP (moving beyond our traditional
> > > "mimeinstall.sh" integration) and wanted to ask a couple of questions!
> > >
> > > 1.  RealPlayer often sends an url to a browser, if the user clicks on a
> > >     link.  We would like to make Konqueror an option for the user to send
> > >     links to.  Is there a way to remotely command Konqueror to do this,
> > >     similar to the "netscape -remote openURL($URL)" syntax we
> > >     use for netscape?
> > >
> > > 2.  At some point in the future, we may create an installer option to set
> > >     the user's home page to www.real.com.  How would I accomplish this
> > >     (note that this option always defaults to no, and won't be supported
> > >     for a long time anyway).
> > >
> > > 3.  Is there an official method to determine whether konqueror is
> > >     installed?
> > >
> > > 4.  Is there a C, C++, or executable level API to make Konqueror reread
> > >     its mime and helper associations from disk once we've modified them?
> > >
> > > 5.  Has the format of .kdelnk mime and helper associations changed?
> > >
> > > 6.  (I think this is the wrong list for this question)
> > >     Do we add items to the K menu in the same way?
> > >
> > > If anyone has answers for these questions, this would be great.  We still
> > > hope to support drag and drop at some point too, but unfortunately the
> > > existence of several systems causes trouble for us.  If anyone knows of a
> > > BSD or equivalent -licensed implementation of a motif/kde/gnome drag &
> > > drop library, I would love to hear about it.
> > >
> > > Lastly, please if any of you have specific questions about realplayer
> > > helper app issues or embedded player (plugin) issues, please let me know.
> > > I have to install Konqueror now to try it out... I haven't tried it yet!
> > >
> > > Thanks very much
> > > Peter Godman
> > > Exclusively a KDE user since 1998!
> > >
> > >
> 

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