On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:31 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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? Both. I tried originally with the downloaded .ram file for that same audio stream. > > 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. The -playlist option made it work. OT: in the interests of having a more user-friendly experience, such as fast-forward etc., I also tried with gmplayer (also with -playlist). It started playing OK but on hitting the fast-forward control the UI just froze and had to be "kill -9"'ed. gmplayer seems to be someone's idea of a joke, which is a pity as mplayer is otherwise very capable. 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
