pmpatrick Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Realplayer/Helix10 for linux was released today. You can download here: http://www.real.com/player/index.html I installed the rpm from the above site(mdk10) and it seems to work fine in mozilla. Many of the real player files that did not play on previous versions seem to work now. To see what I mean, check out the music videos here: http://music.guide.real.com/?rnd=109149754...has-player=true Before, 90% would not play with prior versions of realplayer or mplayer. They all seem to work now with RealPlayer10. One odd thing. When I use firefox and try to view a real audio file, it launches mozilla then opens the file in mozilla. Same thing in konqueror after I added the /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins directory to the konqueror scan folders for plugins. I think you'll need mozilla installed for this to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 (edited) Hooray! Realplayer 10 for Linux final, downloading now! Other related links 1. Realplayer 10 for Linux download, RPM version: https://helixcommunity.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=145 http://www.real.com/linux/ https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads/ 2. Helixplayer & Realplayer Project page (for most updated version) https://helixcommunity.org/projects/player 3. Player FAQ and tutorial https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/unix/ http://fedoranews.org/tchung/realplayer/ To Linux Firefox users: Please note that in Firefox 0.8-0.9.x, there is a bug which prevents passing proper metafile to Realplayer 10 for online streaming playback: 4. Firefox bug: Realplayer playback issue http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240068 However, this bug does not exist in vanilla Mozilla. Hence you can use Mozilla in the meanwhile until this bug is fixed. IMHO, I think this news is important enough to be moved to Everything Linux. Edited August 3, 2004 by zero0w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 IMHO, I think this news is important enough to be moved to Everything Linux. I've moved it. As it's a news item, that's where it belongs. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 I still don't see the great significance of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Dont waste your time with this, its a very basic media player with next to no features. Totem has more capabilities. And if you want to get it so you can play real audio/video, get the codecs so other apps can play instead. Nothing interesting to see here, continue on. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Dont waste your time with this, its a very basic media player with next to no features. Totem has more capabilities. And if you want to get it so you can play real audio/video, get the codecs so other apps can play instead. Nothing interesting to see here, continue on. iphitus <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I REALY dissagree with you. In my experience, using other players with the 'RealPlayer' codecs is a waist of time. the codecs are never up to date, they never seem to play the particular media files I want to play. By having a REAL RealMediaPlayer for linux, it adds a lot of credability to linux. People in general are not trusting, which isreasonable given that people in general are also dishonest. Windows users thinking about switching to linux are often hesitent because of things like having to use something like mplayer, which IMHO sucks, to play media formats like Real and Quicktime. it's the same with Flash. There are swf codecs for mozilla that work a good 50% of the time, but it was HUGE news when they started releasing proper flashplayer for linux. this is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 I like having it available. Eventhough this particular app looks a bit plane its good to have something to show off as a "professional" media player. You have no idea how many people just buy something because of the name. And the price. To them free is amature. At least with the familliar name on it they almost get fooled into thinking its better. The same with Netscape. Eventhough Mozilla in any form is better (and the base for NS)they would rather see the name Netscape. An install wizard like windows would really sell them on linux. But then again if I gave them a cowchip they would scof(sp?) but if I said so-and-so had one and the price is only(rediculously high) they would be all over it. In my opinion they are idiots but hey I make some small part of my living off of them. I'm actually starting to like this one it plays a few more media types than before. And its customizable. HMMMMMM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 There is some grey area on distributing Windows DLL codec on other platforms. License and EULA may prevent you to use it (or reverse engineer to get it running). Having a legitimately, licensed MPEG-4 / MP3 compliant codecs bring GREAT credibility to the Linux platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 ........which is reasonable given that people in general are also dishonest. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 ........which is reasonable given that people in general are also dishonest. :o <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What can i say, I have a relatively bleak view of existense, not that it's anything to get down about, or up for that mater, it just is. Life Sucks, get a helmet. :deal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 fair enough, but i have never had any problems with mplayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 fair enough, but i have never had any problems with mplayer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am also a mplayer fan - it rocks. Although I do like the fact that Real have their player ported to Linux and also that it works so well. For playing local files, Realplayer sucks - but for streaming real web-content, I'm afraid it is the tool designed for the task by the peeps who came up with the task and, as such, rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tom Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 best player ever. Very good, indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 Test Driving RealPlayer 10 for Linux http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8064 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 yup mplayer is awesomeness. and now that I've kmplayer install it plays everything that mplayer can embedded in konqueror. It's in contrib for those who'd like to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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