Re: Realplayer11 realeased (should I bother?)

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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/

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