Wanted: Realplayer 8 dpkg

simbobo · 01-22-2008, 04:29 PM

Any idea where I can get hold of a deb file for Realplayer8? Having had no luck getting streaming audio working with my USB speakers with Realplayer 10, the pulseaudio site tells me that this is do-able with realplayer 8

Drakeo · 01-22-2008, 04:35 PM

xine player is the same thing years ago when realplayer gave us the code thx

Emerson · 01-22-2008, 04:36 PM

Plain ALSA with OSS emulation, Realplayer 10 works fine.

simbobo · 01-23-2008, 11:48 AM

But from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainf...adio4.shtml?fm nothing happens. Is there a way of making it open with xine / vlc, etc? (using Firefox)

Emerson · 01-24-2008, 07:59 AM

Given link works perfectly, with Realplayer-10 plugin in Firefox and with standalone Realplayer-10 as well.

hand of fate · 01-24-2008, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by simbobo

But from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainf...adio4.shtml?fm nothing happens. Is there a way of making it open with xine / vlc, etc? (using Firefox)

I very much doubt that Xine or VLC will work embedded. If you're using anything other than Real Player you will probably have to use the "Listen using stand-alone Real Player" link.

simbobo · 01-24-2008, 01:34 PM

No, I can't make that work.

Emerson · 01-24-2008, 05:58 PM

Here's my setup. Firefox 2.0.0.11. Realplayer(10.0.9) is installed along with it's Mozilla/Netscape plugin. Mplayerplug-in for Firefox is built without realmedia support, just to keep things simple. No Win32 codecs installed.

hand of fate · 01-25-2008, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by simbobo

No, I can't make that work.

Care to elaborate on what you can't make work, and what problems you run into?

simbobo · 01-27-2008, 01:00 PM

If I go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm and click on the play button, nothing happens. I click on the link below ("listen using stand-alone Real Player and a new link opens (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram), but nothing happens again. The tab tells me its an audio/x-pn-realaudio Object.

I've made it function by using the "Use Windows Media Player" option and linking it to VLC, but it would be nice to know how to play imbedded Real Player files

Emerson · 01-27-2008, 01:07 PM

When I click on this link it starts playing immediately (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm)
I think your FF configuration is messed up, probably something else besides Realplayer is set to handle realmedia. Type about:plugins into your address bar and tap Enter, you'll see your plugins configuration.

simbobo · 01-27-2008, 01:13 PM

These are the relevant lines:-

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audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes
audio/x-pn-realaudio Realaudio-plugin resource locator ra,rm,ram Yes
audio/x-realaudio RealAudio file ra,rm,ram Yes
application/vnd.rn-realmedia RealMedia file rm Yes
application/smil RealPlayer smi Yes
audio/vnd.rn-realaudio RealAudio file ra,ram Yes

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audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio document rpm Yes

simbobo · 01-27-2008, 01:48 PM

Trying to play an mp3 from my hard drive, I get no sound from Real Player! So the problem is nothing to do with Firefox then.

Emerson · 01-27-2008, 02:47 PM

Realplayer uses OSS. You should enable OSS emulation in ALSA.

simbobo · 01-28-2008, 04:25 AM

Thanks for your continuing help on this one. As I don't know how to enable OSS emulation I've tried following http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32063, but no luck so far.