On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote:
Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan
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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