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TEX wrote:
Does anybody use realaudio with suse and was it hard to set up?
I just got the RealPlayer 5 audio/video player and encoder for Linux. I got it from RealAudios site as a tgz. I wouldn't say it was hard, but it isn't as easy as the win95 install. You have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .bashrc or else it will give error messages. And I still can't get it to launch automatically from Netscape. It always wants to save to disk. This is OK though, since I usually get them to play better off the hard drive. It plays all the RealAudio files, and the .rm video files. I was interested in it because it's hard to find a video format that plays on windows, unix, and mac. The newer windows codec don't work for avi's under linux. Uncompressed avi's work, but are huge. And there are all sorts of mismatches between windows video mpegs, and linux mpegs. The .rm movie player does indeed play on Linux, but even at the highest quality settings; it was more like a slideshow than a movie. At the T1 setting, I get an error message saying too many dropped frames. I only have a slow pentium 75 with 64 Meg ram. The encoder for windows95 is very nice and works. But the encoder for linux is just a command line interface. I didn't bother to test it. Hey it's free.... can't complain. zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e