realplayer no video fedora core 5 (not xvideo related)

[Stephen Mirowski]

Ian Malone wrote:
> Installed FC5 yesterday. For some reason RealPlayer won't play video,
> has anyone else seen this?  After discovering this I replaced my older
> version of RealPlayer with the current one from real.com with the same
> results.  Symptoms: BBC website video clips the RealPlayer logo stays
> in place, sound plays. Loading realplayer separately and pointing it
> at clips (including from the Real website), sound plays and it sizes
> as if it's playing an audio only file, resizing reveals the video
> window contains only the Real logo.
>
> Have tried with and without XVideo. Have tried with and without helix
> installed. Have tried installing from rpm and installing in
> /home/ian/opt/RealPlayer from .bin. (But not all combinations thereof)
>
> [ian at atlas ~]$ rpm -q compat-libstdc++-33
> compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>
> Helix player on Ogg/Theora works fine.
>

Try a nightly of Helix/RealPlayer 2.0.  They blow Helix/Real 1.0 out of 
the water
for performance and buffering.

Stephen