Re: rvplayer working?

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Fri Apr 30, 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work?
> I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then
> installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't
> come with the .class files for the plugin; so I had to get those from the
> .tgz archive). 
>         But the only thing it will play is the default in rvplayer's location
> bar: "pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm". Everything else - EG: the welcome.rm
> that comes with it wont play, clips from cnn, trailers from movie sites, clips
> from realguide etc either give the "General Error" #1, or Error #19? - Unable
> to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by:
> "****audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0" type messages at the command
> prompt.
>         Any ideas what I am doing wrong?!

Use the Debian rvplayer installer:

    http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/net/rvplayer.html

Noel