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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