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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: distortion on 12 December 2002, 06:25
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ok, so i've been trying to get real audio support working in mplayer, but each time i try to use it, it crashes, giveing me different error messages each time!
so, if anyone could help me out, i'd really appreciate it. and if you need any information other then what i posted, just ask.
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You probably forgot to feed mplayer. Maybe you should post the error messages?
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(note; i'm using the gui to do this)
i'd imagine that i'm supposed to use the "play url" option. if i'm wrong, that's probably my entire problem. anyway...
i either get "couldn't resolve url" (trying to play the same file works just fine on my brother's mac, using realone that is.), or that it isn't in a supported format. but after i reconfigured mplayer for real audio, real was listed as an enabled codec.
oh, and tell me how to feed it.
-thanks
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Why not just use the Linux Real Player?
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quote:
Originally posted by emh:
Why not just use the Linux Real Player?
I would have said the same two months ago. But at about that time, I concluded that Real too, is run by the Nazis (DRM). Mplayer is open-source, and plays about everything. MPlayer rox04 (forgive me, I'm still quite a newbie at h4XoR speech)! Once you get it working.
OK, distortion, give us the URL of the file you are trying to listen to. Also tell us the errors that you are getting. Did you include the real codecs? Did you use the option to point them out when you used ./configure
EG:
./configure --enable-vorbis --with-reallibdir=/home/distortion/mplayer/rpCodecs
or whichever dir the codecs are in?
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Why not just use Xine? It runs just about all video formats, and it is availible through apt (which will solve all dependency problems.)
First, if you are using Red Hat or SuSE, or anything else that supposrts RPMs (I don't know if Mandrake is supported yet) you will need to read this, as posted by the main-man himself:
http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001077 (http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001077)
To get it running, once it is installed, read this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html)
After that, it is just a matter of typing two things: "apt-get update" and then "apt-get install xine-ui"
Butter....
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lorKorub, i'm running slackware, which doesn't have apt-get,and doesn't like rpms too much.
currently, it tells me that whatever file i open is in an unsupported format. more specifically "========= Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported ============ === if this file is an avi, asf, mpeg stream, please contact the author! ==="i'll try the same files on another machine, and it will work fine. but if you are looking for one in particular: http://www.pureacidmixtapes.com/sound/ram/may-energy.ram (http://www.pureacidmixtapes.com/sound/ram/may-energy.ram)
and yeah, i used the --with-reallibdidr switch, and it said at the end of the configuration script that support for real had been included...
thanks, i really appreciate you guys helping me.
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sorry, i kinda want to get an answer on this before this thread dies...so do you guys not have an answer on this.
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Did you download the win32 codecs from MPlayer HQ? And did you stick them in the directory where MPlayer looks for them?
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yes, and they're in the /usr/lib directory.
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/usr/lib or /usr/lib/win32? Also the link you posted to that *.ram file does not seem to be valid. Please post a link so I am make sure it works on my machine as well.
[ December 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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try http://www.groovetech.com/PhoenixData/Silver/Pages/srvltRecMed?SKU=34773 (http://www.groovetech.com/PhoenixData/Silver/Pages/srvltRecMed?SKU=34773)
oh, and those libraries are in /usr/lib/win32
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Yeah, it's not playing for me either, when I download the *.rm file and try and run it locally through MPlayer it tells me:
Requested audio codec family [racook] (afm=realaud) not available (enable it at
compilation!)
But the codec definitions are in my codec.conf file. It appears the binary version that I downloaded was not compiled with realaud support.
Now it plays fine under RealPlayer for Linux of course which is what I have always used for Real content. Any specific reason you don't want to install RealPlayer?
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i tried. when i ran their setup program it just said "can't run (whatever the name of the setup program was)". that was it
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Well, unfortunately I can't help you with that since you are running Slackware (It's been 7 or 8 years since I used Slackware). RealPlayer works perfectly on Red Hat. Maybe some of the other Slackers here can help you get RP installed and running.
[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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its cool, thanks anyway. maybe i'll switch to redhat.
and if anyone else is reading this, yes i set the execute permission on the bin file that you download.
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On a side note, I did just get MPlayer to work with RealVideo/Audio on my Red Hat 8.0 box. I downloaded the source RPM (# apt-get source mplayer) and added the following lines to the configure section of the mplayer.spec file:
This requires RealPlayer to also be installed (because it uses RealPlayer's native codecs) *or* you can download just the RealPlayer codecs and put them in /usr/lib/win32 and change the "with-reallibdir" directive above to point to "/usr/lib/win32". Then build the rpm by:
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb mplayer.spec
There are some development packages that need to be installed to build it, when you try to build it will tell you which ones are needed. Then install:
# cd ../RPMS/i386
# rpm -Uvh mplayer* --nodeps --force
Now it should work.
Now for your slackware installation you could add the same configure options (--enable-real and --with-reallibdir). You could download and put the RealPlayer codecs in your /usr/lib/win32 directory and it should work.
Get the RealPlayer codecs here:
http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ (http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/)
Once you install the codecs and configure/compile/install MPlayer accordingly it should work with RealVideo/Audio.
[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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uhhh, i though it would be easyer to just install realplayer and point mplayer at the *native* librarys, or does that not work. and what about helix.
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By native libraries do you mean native MPlayer codecs? If so I am fairly certain MPlayer does not include such codecs. You have to get the codecs included with RealPlayer or from the other place I linked to (which I believe are nothing more than the codecs normally included with RealPlayer).
If you have something to add that you are sure about I am sure the original poster would be greatly appreciative of it. I am nearly certain he can get RealVideo/Audio support working with the intructions I gave him (not the Red Hat specific instructions but the last part of my post should work for Slackware). The link containing the RealPlayer codecs I got directly off of MPlayer's download page.
[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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quote:
Originally posted by X11:
just use mplayer
Were you dropped on your head as a baby?