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?
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.
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.
HTH, :-)
Marko