<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan <<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">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? </div>Both. I tried originally with the downloaded .ram file for that same audio stream. <div class="im"> > > Mplayer complains (but not about codecs) and stops: > > > > $ mplayer > > <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram</a> > > 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 > > <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram</a>. > > Resolving <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a> for AF_INET6... > > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a> > > This is just a complaint that IPv6 doesn't work. Ignore it. > > > Resolving <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a> for AF_INET... > > Connecting to server <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a>[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. </div>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 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Anyway, if mplayer can read it, any player based directly on ffmpeg (vlc for example) or indirectly (xine with xine-lib-extras-freeworld or totem with gstreamer-ffmpeg) will be able to read your stream