[TriLUG] player for real media?

[Owen Berry]

I should clarify a bit. I can fast forward through realmedia files with
realplayer (v10) or gxine, although realplayer works a lot smoother, but
they're downloaded, not streamed. I would think that fast forwarding
through a streamed file would be more complicated.

Owen

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:31 -0500, Owen Berry wrote:
> 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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