On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote: > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan a > écrit : > > I'm experiencing considerable frustration trying to get Real Audio files > > to play. I dl'ed the x686 binary from real.com on my netbook and tried > > the "realplay" command on a .ram file, but just I get this: > > > > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > > > > despite the fact that PA seems to be working (i.e. the tests work, Flash > > audio works etc.). > > > > What do people use to listen to Real Audio? > > > > poc > > > > Hi, > > did you tried to use a player provided by Fedora or RPM Fusion instead? > You should first try with mplayer for example. Some Real streams may > requires win32/win64 extra codecs, and mplayer will signale this in this > case. I tried both vlc and dragon on a test file. played a minute or so and then just stopped. Dragon played nothing. Mplayer complains (but not about codecs) and stops: $ mplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram. Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.251.195]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 0.04% (139 bytes) Exiting... (End of file) The same URL plays without problems on an iMac or PC. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines