Verily I say unto thee, that Neal Becker spake thusly: > I installed RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm on F8 x86_64. > > I found in the standalone player, there is no sound (it's set to > alsa). > > I also found it complaining about an alsa shared lib (sorry, I seem > to have misplaced the message). > > So it looks like this won't work without a 32-bit version of the > right alsa lib? I wonder if I should bother or if this is a losing > battle. Proprietary software vendors have zero interest in 64-bit, because most proprietary software is for Windows, and most Windows systems are 32-bit (the OS, if not the hardware). It's a vicious circle which won't be broken until Intel's monopoly is broken somehow and/or proprietary software vendors take a chance and lead the hardware industry with 64-bit software innovation. Then again, RealNetworks is also the company behind Helix, which AFAIK is Free Software that can, at least theoretically, be built to 64-bit targets. Helix is basically RealPlayer without the RealMedia (proprietary) support. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what codecs are supported by Helix. The last time I tried it I couldn't get it to play any of my media, which is a selection of most formats. I'm not even sure if the project is still active - I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. Anyway, why waste time with RealPlayer, when MPlayer supports 360 codecs via FFmpeg’s libavcodec? ~]$ mplayer -vc help -ac help | wc -l 360 WRT your ALSA problem, the same thing goes for Adobe's Flash: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432448 -- K. http://slated.org .---- | 'When it comes to knowledge, "ownership" just doesn't make sense' | ~ Cory Doctorow, The Guardian. http://tinyurl.com/22bgx8 `---- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 21:10:48 up 118 days, 17:46, 3 users, load average: 0.63, 0.19, 0.09
