Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.
On April 17 2007 17:19, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:11:37 -0400
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> >
> > > Just got MPlayer to play the Real Video sites you mentioned
> > > (CSPAN and BBC) under AMD64 Etch! I would suggest you try it.
> > > There some instructions here:
> > >
> > > http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/04/install-multimedia-codecs-l
> > >ibdv dcss-in.html
> >
> > Thanks to everybody who commented. OK, I purged Realplayer, and
> > for good measure, removed Firefox in case there was some
> > misconfiguration. Upon a clean reinstall, I brought down mplayer
> > and the plug-in. Removed Totem and whatever else I could think of
> > that Firefox might call. Then, off to CSPAN and the BBC. Nada.
> > On the BBC plugin, mplayer tries to connect to any one of about
> > three servers, evidently can't, and then just stops. Same on the
> > standalone. At
> > crooksandliars.com, though, both the download and the play options
> > work.
> >
> > So, I guess the problem wasn't Realplayer at all. It must be
> Are you using the MPlayer / plugins from debian-multimedia.org with
> the binary codecs from the MPlayer website? As I've said these work
> flawlessly for me on the BBC website whether is windows media or real
> media, audio or video. I really haven't had any problems and I'm
> using AMD64 Debian.
Yes, mplayer, mplayerplug-in and the codecs from mplayer's site.
Quicktime works, windows media works, but Realplayer, either itself or
through mplayer, just will not work. Ahh, well - so it goes. I give
up. Thanks again for trying to help.
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