[TriLUG] player for real media?

[Owen Berry]

Are these files downloaded or streamed?

Owen

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:37 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I'm enrolled in an online class with lectures in realmedia 
> format.I'm looking for a player that can to fast forward 
> through the files.
> 
> neither
>   realplayer (v10)
> nor
>   xine
> 
> work OK..
> 
> The free download from realmedia (v10 or 10-5 forget which),
> plays the files just fine, except I can't fast forward 
> through them (the FF button is greyed out, and if I push the 
> time slider forward, the timer starts incrementing again, 
> but the image is frozen at the frame when I started moving 
> the slider). If I stop half way through the 1hr lecture and 
> exit, I have to hear the whole first 30mins again.
> 
> The real site says you can fastforward.... but
> 
> As a control I downloaded the windows version of realplayer. 
> The fastforward button is not greyed, but even though you 
> press it, it doesn't FF.
> 
> There is a version of realplay for $19.95 or so, but they 
> aren't clear about whether it's linux or windows or if you 
> can fast forward.
> 
> I tried compiling up xine and put all the codecs from "all" 
> and "essential" in /usr/lib/win32 (which according to the 
> xine FAQ is all I need to do) but xine won't recognise my 
> real files. The output from the xine build says that it 
> plays real format 1 and format 2. I have no idea which 
> format real file I have (`file` just says "real media")
> 
> Windows media player does a very nice job, except I don't 
> want to have to run windows
> 
> Helix player doesn't recognise real.
> 
> Are there any better players for real?
> 
> Thanks Joe
> 
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