is there an 'open-source' RealPlayer?

[kstewart]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 12:17 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:27:45PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 10:52:55 +0200
> >
> > Miguel Mendez <flynn at energyhq.es.eu.org> 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. There's also
> > > this new project from Real called Helix (
> > > https://helixcommunity.org/ ). I know somebody is already working on
> > > a port. 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.
> >
> > AFAIK the closed source one from real is no longer fetchable...
> >
> > But mplayer handles nearly all real files properly, so I don't see a
> > problem with using it. The only problem I have ran into is using
> > mplayer with some old episodes of Daria I have on disk in which the
> > audio gets horridly out of sync. But other than those few, it has all
> > ways worked nicely.
>
>  Sounding more hopeful.  Can you please post your mplayer
>  configuration?  Or give me some hints on howto replace
>  realplay with mplayer with mozilla?  It would be nice to
>  have FBSD versions of every tool, plug-in or otherwise.
>  (Be nice to have Java plugins for mozilla, but Sun has
>  its corporate head up where the sun don' shine... *sigh*)

What java plugin are you talking about?

I have a volcano in México called Popocatépetl that I follow and I need a 
javavm plugin setup for mozilla.The page used to work with mozilla and not 
konqueror but now it works with konqueror and not mozilla.

 RealPlayer8 work with both of them but works much better with mozilla. I got 
irritated with my setup while I was typing this and fixed konqueror so that 
it would default to realplay on *.ram files.

Kent


>
> > BTW for doing audio dumps of streams, mplayer works nicely. You can
> > just dump to pcm using  -ao pcm. Not really sure how to directly get
> > it to dump to a mp3 file... AFAIK it will dump to a avi with no video
> > and just a audio stream for doing audio only?
>
>  What I would like to do it create either a CLI script or
>  tk/tcl GUI app to record "some_stream" at Begintime until
>  Endtime. Output to /usr/local/tmp.  Most online streams
>  like from NPR and BBC are archived, but not all.
>
>  gary

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