Anything besides RealPlayer that plays Real ?

Taavi Burns taavi-LbuTpDkqzNzXI80/IeQp7B2eb7JE58TQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 5 03:25:39 UTC 2004


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:09:41PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   The subject says it all.  Is there any non-spyware that runs on linux
> and plays Real's audio+video ?

MPlayer?

It plays pretty much anything else, particularly on Intel (they end
up using the windows codecs in a WINE-ish way).

I'd take this as a good sign:
http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-06/msg00269.html

MPlayer can also handle certain RTSP streams (but, IIRC, RealPlayer servers
use a brainfscked RTSP variant which is not compatible).

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taa

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