On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:17:48PM -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm glad to be writing this email. It seems that many users' > multimedia playback issues will be solved by this simple, > straight-forward solution. You can now download an alpha, albeit, > pretty stable, version of RealPlayer. All you need to do is go to > http://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads/ and download the rpm > linked to from the RealPlayer Alpha table. You will want the Linux > x86(Sun JDS, others) one. > All you need to do is rpm -Uvh, and youll get a nice new RealPlayer > which will even install mozilla plugins and a menu entry for you. It > even has a native gtk interface. WOW!! > It can play the following media formats. Real Audio/Video, Ogg Vorbis, > Ogg Theora, MP3, SMIL, Flash, MPEG4, RTSP and more. It also has support > for Accelerated Video and Fullscreen playback. > I think it is safe to say, that there is no an easy, simple, convenient > way to get a way above decent multimedia setup for Fedora. So let it be > written, so let it be done. > > Word, > Jack > > P.S. For all other media formats, just use mplayer and mozplugger and > stop crying. I would like to stop crying but I have a problem. I followed the instructions above and then when I go to npr website and try to play a smil audio file I get an erro that the smil file failed to open. So now what do I do? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
