OSX & Rm Files

[Parrott]

Gday... was just wondering if there was any thing for osx to play real media files... not a big fan of real player as it is but i do need it to preveiw records that im buying from a particular record store any help would be great cheers in advance

[WMD]

Um... RealPlayer for Mac?

Trust me.  It's better than the Windows version.

[worker201]

I would say that is their problem, not yours.  Call those fuckers and tell them to use a real file format, or you and all your friends are going to boycott them.  Of course it's just a trick, but they might fall for it.

In all seriousness, though, I would rather be media deprived than a media-type slave.  No Real or WMV on my Mac.  If I am interested enough in the material, I will complain loudly to the owner.

[Parrott]

who knows it might just work.. since they are a registered Apple Reseller i could run some speil of how i just purchased a g5 off them and dont wanna use real player... heh might give that one a burl cheers for your help guys.. i did try to have a look at the real player site before i posted up but as some of you may have noticed it is an utter mess and is a poorly designed webiste which is completely unbrowserble...

i did eventually track down the download none the less... i didnt perticualry want to register my email address with them so i managed to track down a website that is full of regerstered log ins for free websites
http://www.bugmenot.com pritty sweet.. any ways cheers for the help!

[Calum]

why not install mplayer and gmplayer and then install all the codecs, they have a whole lot for realplayer files.

this works fine for me on red hat, and since mplayer is open source i imagine it'll be available for osx.

please, somebody correct me if i am wrong, because i am not sure if mplayer needs X or if OSX uses X or what, for the graphical output to work properly.

[worker201]

Both mplayer and VLC are available as pre-compiled OSX native binaries.  You don't even need to have X11 installed.  Both can cover almost any media you can throw at them.  Mplayer is only v1.2, v2 isn't available for the Mac yet.

To prove to someone else that it could be done, I installed xine on OSX too. Requires a shitload of work with gtk-ish dependencies, but can be done.  I actually like xine's ability to take a dvd screenshot, but other than that, I hate it.

[Parrott]

hey just anouther question... do you guys think that a basic mac mini running 1 gig of ram would be decent enough to do some low end sound production? just looping breaks and recording sessions... ?

cheers for all the help so far

[Orethrius]

hey just anouther question... do you guys think that a basic mac mini running 1 gig of ram would be decent enough to do some low end sound production? just looping breaks and recording sessions... ?

cheers for all the help so far

I think if you put GarageBand on it, you could have Rivers Cuomo asking to use your "studio," let's put it that way.  

[Parrott]

erh... its not intended as a "studio" you wang how hard is it to read mate?

im running cooledit fruity loops and acid pro atm im just looking for an alternative that is going to be more versatile than my shitey Hp Pavillion,your gayblokery isnt welcome mate

[themacuser]

Both mplayer and VLC are available as pre-compiled OSX native binaries.  You don't even need to have X11 installed.  Both can cover almost any media you can throw at them.  Mplayer is only v1.2, v2 isn't available for the Mac yet.

To prove to someone else that it could be done, I installed xine on OSX too. Requires a shitload of work with gtk-ish dependencies, but can be done.  I actually like xine's ability to take a dvd screenshot, but other than that, I hate it.

Umm, DVD screenshotting seems to work for me on Apple's DVD player...

Funny.

[worker201]

Umm, DVD screenshotting seems to work for me on Apple's DVD player...

Funny.

I meant xine on Linux.  That's the only reason to have it installed in Linux.  Because mplayer will not take a screenshot.

[worker201]

erh... its not intended as a "studio" you wang how hard is it to read mate?

im running cooledit fruity loops and acid pro atm im just looking for an alternative that is going to be more versatile than my shitey Hp Pavillion,your gayblokery isnt welcome mate

Your lack of intelligence and sense of humor isn't welcome either, "mate".

I thought it was pretty obvious that Orethrius was telling you that the average modern Apple is more than capable of doing good high-end professional sound editing (and therefore, low-end amateur stuff too).  If you want to know what some good sound programs are, then that's another question.

[Calum]

I meant xine on Linux.  That's the only reason to have it installed in Linux.  Because mplayer will not take a screenshot.

you can just use another screengrabbing thing while playing it in mplayer can't you? i am sure i've done this before...

[davidnix71]

Sorry to get in on this late. RM plays just fine in OSX. Real has a player for OS X. It has been recent though. However, if you want to save RM files and recode them, you have to take the RM plugin out of your browser (I'm speaking of Firefox) and save to disc. If you don't the plugin overrules your browser and won't let you save.

ffmegX is shareware (not crippleware, you have to look at a BUY ME screen if you don't pay) that will transcode RM video to divX avis that play in mplayer or vlc and with no real loss of quality. If you want to transcode audio only, just play it and use freeware Wiretap an save as uncompressed wave (aiff). It's installer sudos root, so if you install ffmepX you MUST be logged in as admin, or Darwin will threaten to 'report you'.

[piratePenguin]

Sorry to get in on this late. RM plays just fine in OSX. Real has a player for OS X. It has been recent though. However, if you want to save RM files and recode them, you have to take the RM plugin out of your browser (I'm speaking of Firefox) and save to disc. If you don't the plugin overrules your browser and won't let you save.

Does "File > Save Page As..." (not sure if "Page" stays/goes/changes) not work?