On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:47:09PM +0930, Mike Hore wrote: > Hi Hans, > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:32:05AM +0930, Mike Hore wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Now, never satisfied, I want to get streaming audio from sites that > only provide RealPlayer or WMP formats! These are proprietary, and so > not supported by Helix. Helix kindly tells me I need to download > RealPlayer 11, but of course when I look there I find that while Linux > packages are available in RPM or DEB formats, it's x86 only (as usual). > > > > Perhaps mplayer from the repository http://www.debian-multimedia.org > can handle those? > > > > Yes, maybe, and I had a look there the other day, but I'm too much of a > Linux newbie to be able to figure out what everything means. I don't > really want to tackle compiling from source No need to, www.debian-multimedia.org provides binary debian packages. [...] > I need some simple instructions > and I don't seem to be able to find them anywhere. You could try, as root: echo "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install mplayer -- Note that I use Debian version 5.0 Linux sqlserver 2.6.26-1-powerpc #1 Sat Jan 10 14:00:38 CET 2009 ppc GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E
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