is there an 'open-source' RealPlayer?
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sat Sep 4 11:59:00 PDT 2004
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:52:55AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:25:38 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > Is there any open source version of the Real Audio player?
> > or a translator that takes the input or ra[m] and creates
> > a wav|mp3 stream? Also,is anything is the works to create
> > a (*ick*) Windoze version of their player for the Unix user?
>
> IIRC mencoder (which is part of mplayer) can do that.
Can anyone clue me in further re mplayer? (I tried it
N months ago, got stuck, went back to other players.
...maybe i got something working, i forget. )
> There's also this
> new project from Real called Helix ( https://helixcommunity.org/ ). I
> know somebody is already working on a port.
Do you mean a port of Real? or Helix? I saw the Helix
stuff on the realaudio.com site; never got back to it.
> You can still use the closed
> source linux version of Real Player as well, but only for replay, no
> transcode AFAIK. I'd give mencoder a try, I've used it in the past to
> convert between video formats and it works very well.
>
> > Anybody out there:-) ?
>
> Definitely :)
>
Great! have a good one,
gary
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