Why not just use something like mplayer? Much simpler as it tends to be packaged into distributions and supports many more formats. OK, mplayer I found needed the actual stream URL extracting from the .ram file (in the case of the BBC it just needed the content which is the stream URL, use a command like mplayer $(cat filename.ram) ). Mplayer is just one example, there are others like xine. Another alternative, if you want to make some work for yourself would be create a command line player based on something like gstreamer... Well for simple use you could even use some of the CLI tools included with gstreamer. I really would leave trplayer alone. Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:26:05 > From: Karl Dahlke <eklhad at comcast.net> > Reply-To: commandline at yahoogroups.com > To: commandline at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [commandline] trplayer kludge, but it works > > Ok, this is really bogus, but I just can't spend a lot of time on this. > This is the fastest way I could get streaming audio to work. > > 1) Create a new directory /trj, for a trplayer jail. > We're going to chroot into this, so it's like a jail. > > 2) Make directories bin dev etc usr lib usr/bin usr/lib in /trj. > > 3) Put in a few critical files like /etc/host.conf and /bin/bash > and /dev/console etc. > > 4) Telnet into the old machine, where trplayer works. > Copy /lib/* and /usr/lib/* over to /trj. > This brings in RealPlayer8, which is under /usr/lib, > and it brings in the compatability libraries, > which were necessary for trplayer to run even on the old box. > Note that trplayer was compiled for an even older redhat, and sorry, > this is the only binary, > so we needed compat libraries even to get it to work on that machine. > Trying to compile it from source would probably take me two weeks, > if it can be done at all, > which it probably can't, as I'm sure the real player sdk > has changed substantially over the past few years. > Why such a valuable program goes unmaintained, I don't know. > > 5) Make sure you can chroot into /trj. > This means bash has to work, along with its 5 shared libraries. > No real problem here; I copied all the libraries over. > Like using a sledge hammer to do the job. > > 6) Test trplayer; it works. > > 7) Remove, about a dozen at a time, the libraries in /trj/lib and > /trj/usr/lib, > until trplayer doesn't work. > If you took something out that made it break, put it back. > (Does it hurt when you do that? Then don't do that!) > Finally you are left with a handful of shared libraries. > That's all you need. > Notice that one of these is /lib/ld-linux.so.2, > and it is referenced, in bash, and in trplayer, by an absolute path. > That's why I had to chroot into a new filesystem. > I couldn't just put these old libraries in a special > old_tr_libs directory and setLD_LIBRARY_PATH, > though that would have been so much easier. > > 8) Remove any programs or files in the RealPlayer directory that > trplayer doesn't need. > This just saves space, and I haven't done it yet. > > 9) Write a C program to chroot into /trj and call up trplayer, > passing the arguments along. > This has to be setuid root. > > 10) Point to this wrapper program in your edbrowse config file. > Verify that you can invoke streaming audio from web pages, > and you don't have to be root to do it. > > Well it all works, and I really don't want to think about it any more, > at least not for a while. > However, there is a real incentive to get this working, somehow, > under real player 11. > That program can access windows media, and flash. > How many websites are currently unavailable to edbrowse because they > rely on flash? > I have real player 11, and I wonder if I can just swap libraries, > and have it work. > That's probably too good to be true. > > If any of you would like the trj file system, bundled up as a > compressed tarball, > I could make it available. > Or, if you have a better solution, please let me know. > > Karl Dahlke > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/commandline/ > > <*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > > <*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/commandline/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > <*> To change settings via email: > mailto:commandline-digest at yahoogroups.com > mailto:commandline-fullfeatured at yahoogroups.com > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > commandline-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
