Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > 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 > So far I haven't found a solution for playing realmedia from here on 64-bit: http://www.booktv.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
