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[MikeBoomshadow]

Why does Media Jukebox require RealPlayer to play .swf files?  These are Macromedia Shockwave files, and only required the Shockwave plugin, which I have installed, before I installed Media Jukebox.  As it is, I'm considering installing RealPlayer if I can either a) find a version that doesn't call home; b) figure out which ports Real tries to use and block them without interrupting my normal service; or c) just find the codecs and put them in a folder where Media Jukebox will recognize them.

System info:  I downloaded Media Jukebox 8 from mediajukebox.com last night, and am running it on Windows 98 SE.  The MJ build number is 8.0.394.

[ChicoSelfs]

Maybe the *.swf extention is associated with RealPlayer

[MikeBoomshadow]

There's a problem with that theory.  For .swf files to be associated with RealPlayer, I'd have to have RealPlayer installed, but I don't.  .swf files are not naturally associated with anything in Windows 98 (or other versions that I know of)--not even the Shockwave Player, which comes with the plugin.

So the question remains, why does Media Jukebox want me to install RealPlayer before it will play .swf files?

[xen-uno]

I'd hit the Shockwave site and DL their player. There should be (2) types...the standalone player and the browser plug-in. Try the stand alone version. That MAY fix the associations.

10^-27

[ChicoSelfs]

Or use Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ and donwload on the same page allplugins.exe