Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:18:58 -0600 From: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using Realplayer codecs with mplayer Message-ID: <1140567538.625.36.camel@netvista.network> In-Reply-To: <17403.43681.607154.341869@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <1140566354.625.30.camel@netvista.network> <17403.43681.607154.341869@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Andrew writes: > > > So, I suppose my question is: Will mplayer, if set up correctly, > > play realaudio files, > > I believe I have done so - by accident - within the past 24 > hours. Which realmedia type and version I cannot remember. > However, even so I would default to RealPlayer 10 (even under > comaptibility) over mplayer. > > > Robert Huff Well, yes, RealPlayer works great for playing streams, but the ultimate goal is to archive audio streams; i.e. download, and re-encode them in another format. This is, admittedly, somewhat of a gray area, but I cannot see it as being immoral if they are for my personal use. I have done it with Slackware, mplayer, and realplayer, but I'd rather not have another OS around just for this (seemingly) simple task. -Andrew
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