Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:12 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there an 'open-source' RealPlayer? Message-ID: <20040904185712.GA33061@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040904105255.048d3236.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <20040904082538.GA92036@thought.org> <20040904105255.048d3236.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:52:55AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:25:38 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Is there any open source version of the Real Audio player? > > or a translator that takes the input or ra[m] and creates > > a wav|mp3 stream? Also,is anything is the works to create > > a (*ick*) Windoze version of their player for the Unix user? > > IIRC mencoder (which is part of mplayer) can do that. Can anyone clue me in further re mplayer? (I tried it N months ago, got stuck, went back to other players. ...maybe i got something working, i forget. ) > There's also this > new project from Real called Helix ( https://helixcommunity.org/ ). I > know somebody is already working on a port. Do you mean a port of Real? or Helix? I saw the Helix stuff on the realaudio.com site; never got back to it. > You can still use the closed > source linux version of Real Player as well, but only for replay, no > transcode AFAIK. I'd give mencoder a try, I've used it in the past to > convert between video formats and it works very well. > > > Anybody out there:-) ? > > Definitely :) > Great! have a good one, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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