Real Audio on F12
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 13:39:53 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Pikachu_2014 wrote:
>
>
> 2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
>
> 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
>
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> You should add the "-playlist" option to mplayer
That worked, thanks. The original error message from mplayer is
spectacularly obscure.
poc
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