Hi, Tom:
I'm still running Real Player 8 because my trplayer is working (per Bill's LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
HTH.
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Bill in Denver
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> There's an environment variable that might enable you to use trplayer with the+Real Player 8.0 rpm available on the Speakup web site. I'm sorry I can't
+immediately get at what that is. I'll post later--or perhaps Bill Acker or
+someone else can chime in with it.
>
> Folks, let's not miss the essential fact. The problem here is proprietary
+code. The Real products, including third party support software such at Matt
+Campbell's trplayer, are proprietary. You want it to work with today's Real
+products? You're obliged to go to Real with a request and they'll oblige you to+sign something before giving you their SDK.
>
> Igor Gueths writes:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > What you need is the Realsystem G2 sdk. Unfortunately, Real made it
> > unnecessarily difficult for one to be able to find/download the
> > thing...I'll look around here and see if I still have it.
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:14:29PM -0400, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > > Well, the problem here is the trplayer part. Trplayer is at this point
> > > incompatible with Mandrake 9.x. Everytime I install the rpm trplayer
> > > segfaults, crashes, and dies.
> > > When trying to compile it tells me I need an sdk which I can not find.
> > > Anyone, know what all I need to recompile trplayer for a modern Linux os,
> > > and where to find the realplayer sdk or whatever it was it needs?
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
+<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:07 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Converting real media to mp3.
> > >
> > >
-N - 10/1292: William F. Acker Re: Problems with trplayer. -- (54%)
trick).
However, I will say that mplayer works pretty well. It has an embarrasment of switches so can be rather daunting at first.
Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> Hi, Janina..
> Last night I downloaded the Real 9.0 codects for mplayer as well as others,
> but have not installed them yet. I am looking forward to trying them out
> this weekend.
> It looks like mplayer is my best bet at playing all those proprietary
> windows media file types.
>
>
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Janina Sajka, Director
Technology Research and Development
Governmental Relations Group
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
