Play Real Media with Amarok 1.4.7

AGazzaz · 11-16-2007, 12:16 PM

Hello,
I am running Mandriva 2008, KDE 3.4.7, Amarok 1.4.7 with Xine engine but it can not run Real Media and I could not find the Helix engine within Mandriva package manager and on Amarok's website.

So, How can I make Amarok play Real Media?

reddazz · 11-17-2007, 05:51 AM

Try using win32 codecs. These allow some multimedia apps to play proprietary formats. To install them, go to easyurpmi and setup the plf repositories. After that look for win32-codecs in the GUI package manager and select them for installation. Alternatively, do

Code:

#urpmi win32-codecs

AGazzaz · 11-18-2007, 07:40 AM

Thank you reddaz for your help but I am afraid it did not work
as you instructed I installed w32codec from plf-nonfree mandriva mirror but still Real Media can not be played

This message appears in amarok

Code:

A problem occurred while loading a library or decoder.
xine parameters: cook.so

duryodhan · 11-18-2007, 07:48 AM

hmm I am not sure if this will work for you , but on my comp I just put the mplayer binary codecs package from mplayerhq.hu to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs and then ALL of my music players started working fine. Maybe you could try that

note that I didn't install mplayer ..just downloaded the codecs and untarred them at that location,

AGazzaz · 11-18-2007, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

hmm I am not sure if this will work for you , but on my comp I just put the mplayer binary codecs package from mplayerhq.hu to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs and then ALL of my music players started working fine. Maybe you could try that

note that I didn't install mplayer ..just downloaded the codecs and untarred them at that location,

Thank you duryodhan,
but I do not have codecs folder in both locations.

reddazz · 11-18-2007, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGazzaz

Thank you duryodhan,
but I do not have codecs folder in both locations.

What he meant was that you can download the codecs from mplayer.hu and copy them to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs. If those two directories don't exist, then you create them on your own.

AGazzaz · 11-19-2007, 02:52 AM

I thought that the codecs folder is for specific distros
Thank you Amarok is now playing Real Media

duryodhan · 11-19-2007, 03:59 AM

Did it start working because you copied the codes to /usr/lib/codecs or sometihng else?

cos if it did , then I can remove the "I am not sure.. " part when I give someone this advice for Mandriva.

AGazzaz · 11-19-2007, 06:04 AM

Yes it started working when I created the folders, untarred the codecs package in those folders and restarted amarok
now every thing is fine

Thank you duryodhan
Thank you reddaz