[Linux-disciples] Player Realmedia through mplayer

[Adam Kessel]

As far as I know, there are no prebuilt mplayer binaries that support
real codec.  Might be a license issue. But you can rebuild mplayer with
the codecs.

You need to have the codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs when you build
mplayer, or specify --with-reallibdir to configure.

See file:///usr/share/doc/mplayer-doc/HTML/en/codecs.html#realvideo for
more details.

I would suggest starting with Christian Marillat's source packages for
mplayer.  If you don't have a lot of experience building modified Debian
packages, this would be a great time to learn.  Start by reading the
dpkg-buildpackage manpage and docs. 

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:36:20PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I'd like to play Realmedia files through mplayer, but I just find
> everything about real.com so disgusting that I don't want to go
> through the 'realplayer'-package installation process (which, for
> those of you who don't know, involves installing the RealMedia
> player off real.com and then apparently installing some sort of
> Debian wrapper around it).
> 
> All this because, ironically enough, I want to watch this:
> http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/p.cgi/speakers.html
> 
> There must be some way to decode the RealMedia stream directly
> without installing the realplayer package. Christian Marillat's
> homepage doesn't say anything about how one might do this, so I
> wondered if people here knew how.
> 
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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