Re: RealPlayer audio streams

[Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au>]

Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * Hans Ekbrand <hans.ekbrand@sociology.gu.se> [2009-01-22 15:19:14 CET]:
> > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote:
> > > > You can use mplayer and mozilla-mplayer (debian packages). You need
> > > > realmedia codecs. Two options for installing the codecs:
> > > > - run
> > > >     /usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh install
> > > > - install Linux PPC 20071007 codecs in your /usr/lib/codecs from
> > > > http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> > > >
> > > > You'll need installing the package libstdc++.so.5.
> > > Both of these, are not-the-debian-way.
> >  Says who? The binary_codecs.sh script infact _is_ the Debian way.
>
> Generally, running install scripts is *not* the debian way, apt-get is.
> I don't know the details in this particular case.
>
> > > Why not just apt-get from www.debian-multimedia.org?
> >  Because that's not-the-debian-way. 
>
> Maybe not in your contry, but maybe in countries that does not
> acknowledge software patents. I don't now your particular situation,
> but this is my guess.

Hi folks, I'm in Australia which I think does acknowledge software 
patents but I don't really know, or even care, frankly.
But just for the record, www.debian-multimedia.org did the job for me. 
All I did was add that line to my sources.list file, use SPM to select 
kplayer and everything it depends on, and apply the updates.  I think 
that's pretty much equivalent to using apt-get, but SPM supposedly 
handles dependencies a bit better?
Anyway, kplayer is happily handling real streams, MP3 and WMP with no 
problem. Hey, I'm not a purist, I just like to get the job done, any way 
that works   :-)

Cheers,  Mike.

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          Mike Hore        mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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