From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 4 18:59:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750B216A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E811943D53 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:58:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i84IvN98002994; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i84IvJse033098; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i84IvDfj033093; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:57:12 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Miguel Mendez Message-ID: <20040904185712.GA33061@thought.org> References: <20040904082538.GA92036@thought.org> <20040904105255.048d3236.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040904105255.048d3236.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there an 'open-source' RealPlayer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:59:00 -0000 On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:52:55AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:25:38 -0700 > Gary Kline 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