realplayer package?

adds2one · 12-05-2005, 03:16 PM

Anyone know where I could find a Slack package for Realplayer?

Finlay · 12-05-2005, 03:42 PM

Have you tried getting the real player plugins for xine?

reddazz · 12-05-2005, 04:04 PM

You can download the *.bin file from the realplayer site or from the helixplayer site. It works on any Linux distro.

fireedo · 12-05-2005, 04:53 PM

or you can use mplayer since it can play realplayer media format.....you can get it from linuxpackages.net

carboncopy · 12-06-2005, 12:27 AM

Or you can download it from www.real.com/linux

adds2one · 12-06-2005, 06:15 PM

I installed mplayer, the mplayer plug ins and codecs but when I go to a site and try to play some realaudio or video I get a screen that says mplayer plug in stopped.

Anyone help me with this?

Finlay · 12-06-2005, 06:20 PM

the package installs the codecs to /usr/lib/codecs
you may need to configure mplayer to point to that directory.

dive · 12-06-2005, 07:03 PM

Further still some sites like bbc.co.uk/radio only seem to work with real player plugin, and, mplayer does not like to play .rams in urls very much. At least this seems to be the case with bbc radio 4, which work better with real.

adds2one · 12-07-2005, 12:31 AM

OK, I am getting nowhere with Mplayer so I am going to try and install RealPlayer. I was given the option of choosing which folder to install to. Is there somwhere in particular that I should install to?

carboncopy · 12-07-2005, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adds2one

OK, I am getting nowhere with Mplayer so I am going to try and install RealPlayer. I was given the option of choosing which folder to install to. Is there somwhere in particular that I should install to?

Not really. I install mine in /opt/share/RealPlayer.

Code:

root@carboncopy:~# which realplay  
/usr/bin/realplay
root@carboncopy:~# ls -l /usr/bin/realplay 
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 30 2005-11-19 14:22 /usr/bin/realplay -> /opt/share/RealPlayer/realplay*
root@carboncopy:~#

linuxhippy · 12-09-2005, 08:49 AM

rams are simple text files that point you to a streaming url. MPlayer needs the url info and not the ram file to play (though it may play the ram file with the -playlist switch to tell MPlayer the file is a playlist.)

Here's a sample ram file called high.ram:

http://shout2a.gnax.net:5112

To play this:

mplayer http://shout2a.gnax.net:5112

OR

mplayer -playlist http://shout2a.gnax.net:5112