Is there an alternative to the Linux version of RealPlayer? The quality of the Linux version isn't nearly as good as the current RealOne player for Windows. I have access to a lot of RealPlayer streams for training, but watching them in the Linux RealPlayer is just painful. These streams also require a login id/password pair so that is a feature that needs to be supported as well. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, John LeMay wrote:
Is there an alternative to the Linux version of RealPlayer? The quality of the Linux version isn't nearly as good as the current RealOne player for Windows. I have access to a lot of RealPlayer streams for training, but watching them in the Linux RealPlayer is just painful. These streams also require a login id/password pair so that is a feature that needs to be supported as well.
Did you try the latest Realone player for Linux? It was beta last time I checked and rather painful to use...Actually it mangled up the way my KDE handled with which applications opened with what so much that K3b no longer let me burn MP3s...So if you find it be cautious, although this happened a couple of months ago. To get it you must select the Unix/Linux community player and select the tarball download, you'l see it listed at the bottom of the screen. "RealOne Player for Unix - Preview Release" As regards to the user/id password, I don't know... Matt
-- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
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To get it you must select the Unix/Linux community player and select the tarball download, you'l see it listed at the bottom of the screen. "RealOne Player for Unix - Preview Release"
Alternatively, if you just want the real audio, and want to keep witha broadly Open Source option, there's a Real Audio plugin for XMMS, you can get it from www.xmms.org Can MPlayer play Real Video? -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.1). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
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Alternatively, if you just want the real audio, and want to keep witha broadly Open Source option, there's a Real Audio plugin for XMMS, you can get it from www.xmms.org
Not really Open Source :( It uses the RealAudio SDK that you can download for free from RealNetwork and this is closed source, i.e. binary only. It does have its merits though as you now can record RA streams :) Simply choose the disk writer output plugin and you have your net radio recorder :) Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de
John LeMay wrote:
Is there an alternative to the Linux version of RealPlayer? The quality
MPlayer. For all your video playback needs ;-) http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html Don't install Mplayer from the SuSE discs .. roll your own. The instructions are a bit obscure sometimes, but if you follow them closely you'll end up with a player that can handle just about anything you care to throw at it - QuickTime, RealPlayer, avi, wmv, DivX etc. sjb
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:27:57 -0400
John LeMay
Is there an alternative to the Linux version of RealPlayer? The quality of the Linux version isn't nearly as good as the current RealOne player for Windows. I have access to a lot of RealPlayer streams for training, but watching them in the Linux RealPlayer is just painful. These streams also require a login id/password pair so that is a feature that needs to be supported as well.
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