Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:30:29 -0700 From: kstewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Subject: Re: is there an 'open-source' RealPlayer? Message-ID: <200409041330.30063.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040904191702.GB33061@thought.org> References: <20040904082538.GA92036@thought.org> <20040904132745.6acf71ab@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040904191702.GB33061@thought.org>
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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@energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:25:38 -0700 > > > Gary Kline <kline@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 M=E9xico called Popocat=E9petl that I follow and I need= a=20 javavm plugin setup for mozilla.The page used to work with mozilla and not= =20 konqueror but now it works with konqueror and not mozilla. RealPlayer8 work with both of them but works much better with mozilla. I g= ot=20 irritated with my setup while I was typing this and fixed konqueror so that= =20 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 =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html Support the Bison at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
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