i can't figure out how to play .rm files. they won't play in kmplayer, and if i try to play them with mplayer, it says:

Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll

i don't know what to do, i used to be able to play .rm files, but then i reinstalled linux and i can't get it to play. i use slackware 10.1....

http://www.real.com/linux/?rppr=rnwk...0104freeplayer
RealPlayer seems the best for real media

Mplayer with codecs will play real media too
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

thank you for the reply, but i guess i didn't make myself clear earlier. i have real player 10 already, and it didn't play the file, it says something like unsupported file type. i also have the mplayer codecs installed. i think that the problem started when i updated kde, but i'm not too sure about that. the files worked previously on my computer.

Well, I would suspect then, that it would have a lot to do with the update of KDE. I would suspect that if you have the codecs but the players can't find them, then maybe KDE has renamed, relocated, either your codecs or the paths to them.

Pretty sure kmplayer looks in the same place as mplayer for it's codecs /usr/lib/win32 Not sure where RP looks for them. but I would start there...

KC

i don't have a /usr/lib/win32 directory. i found some codecs in /usr/lib/codecs but the avisynth.dll in not in there, and it isn't on my computer at all.

I looked in mplayers codecs package and avisynth.dll is in here. You may need to get the all package instead of the essential package. I put mine in usr/local/lib/codecs on this Linux Box. I put then in a different place on the BSD box, forget where this moment.
You can always do a file search for the library if you think that you already have it installed. If it worked before and not now after KDE upgrade I would say that a path got changed.
Here is a list of the codecs in the realplayer codec directory and it will play all real media.

file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/amrn.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/amrw.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/atrc.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/colorcvt.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/cook.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/cvt1.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/drv1.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/drv2.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/drvc.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/raac.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/rv10.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/rv20.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/rv30.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/rv40.so
file:/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/sipr.so

I think that I let real player install itself to it's default on this box. So that is the path that it will probably be at. This is a Fedora box, might be different on Slack, and wil be different on BSD.

i downloaded all the codecs for mplayer and i still don't have avisynth.dll i must be doing something wrong... could someone post a link to the exact file i need to download that has avisynth.dll in it?

edit: nevermind, i got it....thanks for the help guys..

Hmm, I am having a similar problem, and I can't find avisynth.dll.
Where did you find it? Thanks.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

There are Mplayers codecs.

Thanks, I guess I should have said that I knew about that page.
I have installed MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2 and the codecs from all-20050412.tar.bz2, and I did not find avisynth.dll.

% tar jtf all-20050412.tar.bz2 | grep avisynth
%

Should it be in either of those 2 tarballs and I've gone blind? or is it found somewhere else?

edit: I guess I should say I've also looked in the essential codecs: essential-20050412.tar.bz2 and it is not there either. avisynth.dll is also not mentioned in:
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...decs/ChangeLog
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050412-MD5SUMS
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050412-MD5SUMS
nor any of the other MD5SUMS files I checked.

If anyone knows the exact filename or url where to find avisynth.dll please post it, thanks.

i can't remember how i fixed the problem....but i do not have the file avisynth.dll

i remember i did something really simple to fix the problem, but i can't remember what it was...i will post back here when i remember.

Well, since a couple of weeks or so, I face the same problem than Crayoneater.
RealPlayer Gold 10 will not play some files (those pesky ~.rpm), QuickTime 6 (isntalled with CrossOverOffice will not show the video (but the sound yes), and mplayer won't play some Real media files (like that one from sptunik7.com, great site BTW).

I'm shipped with Mandriva 2005 Cooker with sources compiled mplayer,
/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs/ shows every codecs mentionned by teckk
/usr/lib/win32/ shows much more

but mplayer keep printing (that's a very new behaviour / message to me ) :
so if someone *knows* where's that avisynth pesky dll, please say

i remember how i got it to work now....i downloaded all of the mplayer codecs, and i couldn't get it to work still. i was trying to play a file that was on a website, and it wouldn't work, so i just downloaded the file to my computer, and then played it and it worked. so i would assume that my problem isn't the same as everyone else's, so i'm really not much help.

allright, I may want to give your trick a try Crayoneater

thank you for coming back & answering

Certifiable newbie here. I have been having a horrible time with RealPlayer10Gold. After a very kind geek at guilinux (Garret by name, hero by title) rummaged about in my computer for hours and hours, he finally got the dang thing to acknowledge that it was there, downloaded and would I please register it? Which I did, thinking, ah, that's fixed the little bugger. But, no. Still can't get it to play. Won't play cd's won't play streaming radio. At this point, I'm thinking of giving up entirely. Sometimes I can get Kaffeine to play streaming radio if I click on the Microsoft icon, but sometimes it won't, and I have no way of guessing/knowing when it will or will not work. Frustrating to say the least.

There is something very peculiar going on in my poor beleaguered computer ever since I downloaded it, though, and I wonder if these aren't clues? First, the Case Of The Disappearing And Reappearing Files. A file with helix (or something similar) shows up then disappears then shows up again. These are the guys who developed the linux version of RealPlayer. I'd go to their site and ask for help, but the site is so forbidding for a newbie that I tuck my tail between my legs and whimper and run home.

Then octet-stream started acting up. That I've fixed, thanks to a thread here. But for a while there, nothing would work, not Konquerer, not the mail program, not even Open Office. Jeesh.

So if anyone can help me in plain English, not taking ANY knowledge for granted as I have zero, that would be cool.