On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote: > Ken Bass <daytooner <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > I was given one of these, and have been trying to play it, but nothing > seems > > to recognize it - mplayer, ffmpeg, vlc. I even installed RealMedia 11 and > > tried that, but even that failed. > Sorry, that should have been RealPlayer Gold, for linux. > > Did you upload a sample to ftp://ffmpeg.org/MPlayer/incoming/ into a new > subdirectory (write only, please add a describing txt file)? > Please post the filename here. > > I will upload a sample soon, but meanwhile, the clip seems to be a RealPlayer "internet-video-recording". I got the latest version of RealPlayer for Windows (Version 11), and it plays okay - on Windows. But RealPlayer Gold on linux doesn't understand it. Can any of the Windows version RealPlayer codecs be copied and used for linux? TIA ken