Any advice for RealPlayer?

[Lixus Looser]

I successfully installed RealPlay 8 on my system runing Fedora Core 1. Problem is, I can't get it to play any mpeg files. I know in Windows Realplayer will play mpegs. I can't figure out if it even can play them in Linux... to be honest, I can't figure out if it will play anything other than the welcome song.

I did successfully creat a launch icon on the bar at the bottom of my screen that automatically runs the program. SWEET! That'a about the coolest thing I did all day actually... but I want to be able to play MP3s, Mpegs, Avi and Streaming video/audio. I could do all of this with RealPlayer in Windows.. not that it was my favorite way to do it, but since I can't get any of the other programs such as Xine or Mplayer to work, I thought maybe Real Player would do the trick.

Any advice?

Thanks.

John

[vvx]

Nobody uses realplayer on linux so I doubt you'll find any help.

Your better off getting mplayer to work.

You use fedora? How did you try installing it before? The best method is with apt/yum. You'll need the repository from http://www.fedora.us in your config file, and the "taboo" mplayer packages are available off the repository at http://rpm.livna.org (as is mp3 playback for xmms and the such.)

[mojo jojo]

like said before just go with mplayer or xine.

Here is how you get both to play various formats.

1. download these
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...t5dlls.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...t6dlls.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...extras.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...imdlls.tar.bz2

2.extack them anyway you want GUI(ark or file roller) or CLI (tar -xjvf <package name>

3. In the CLI as root "su" type "mkdir /usr/lin/win32"

4. make sure you in the same directory as those files you extracted "ls"

5. move "cd" into once of the codec folders and "mv -f *.* /usrt/lib/win32"

6. repeat step 5 till your done.

7. go watch a video ;D

Simple ???

Michael

[vvx]

[quote author=The Great Mojo Jojo link=board=12;threadid=8580;start=0#msg77517 date=1075092814]
like said before just go with mplayer or xine.

Here is how you get both to play various formats.

1. download these
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...t5dlls.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...t6dlls.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...extras.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...codecs.tar.bz2
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...imdlls.tar.bz2

2.extack them anyway you want GUI(ark or file roller) or CLI (tar -xjvf <package name>

3. In the CLI as root "su" type "mkdir /usr/lin/win32"

4. make sure you in the same directory as those files you extracted "ls"

5. move "cd" into once of the codec folders and "mv -f *.* /usrt/lib/win32"

6. repeat step 5 till your done.

7. go watch a video ;D

Simple ???

Michael
[/quote]

Ugh, what a mess you create!

[cga]

[quote author=vvx link=board=12;threadid=8580;start=0#msg77506 date=1075089672]
Nobody uses realplayer on linux so I doubt you'll find any help.
[/quote]

I use RealPlayer on Linux a lot. NPR's audio archives are in RealAudio format and JPL's feeds require RealAudio. But I only use it for those items, and don't know anything about using with mpeg files.

So you're half right.