On Monday 14 December 2009 12:47:27 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. Does mplayer play that test file? Are you talking about a *file* or a stream from the Internet? > 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. This is just the regular complaint that you don't have remote control set up. Ignore it. > 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 This is just a complaint that IPv6 doesn't work. Ignore it. > Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET... > Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.251.195]: 80... IPv4 does resolve, and mplayer successfully connects. This is good. > Cache size set to 320 KBytes > Cache fill: 0.04% (139 bytes) > > > Exiting... (End of file) This is bad. Mplayer received only 139 bytes of the stream. Maybe you can try it in a more verbose mode (-v), hopefully it will display more info about what is going on. HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines