Problems with trplayer.

[Tom and Esther Ward]

I have a realplayer 8 rpm that came with my Drake 9.2 PPowerpack, but
without the variable that won't do me much good at this point.
As you mentioned perhaps Bill or someone else knows it.
Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with trplayer.


> There's an environment variable that might enable you to use trplayer with
the Real Player 8.0 rpm available on the Speakup web site. I'm sorry I can't
immediately get at what that is. I'll post later--or perhaps Bill Acker or
someone else can chime in with it.
>
> Folks, let's not miss the essential fact. The problem here is proprietary
code. The Real products, including third party support software such at Matt
Campbell's trplayer, are proprietary. You want it to work with today's Real
products? You're obliged to go to Real with a request and they'll oblige you
to sign something before giving you their SDK.
>
> Igor Gueths writes:
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> > What you need is the Realsystem G2 sdk. Unfortunately, Real made it
> > unnecessarily difficult for one to be able to find/download the
> > thing...I'll look around here and see if I still have it.
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:14:29PM -0400, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > > Well, the problem here is the trplayer part. Trplayer is  at this
point
> > > incompatible with Mandrake 9.x. Everytime I install the rpm trplayer
> > > segfaults, crashes, and dies.
> > > When trying to compile it tells me I need an sdk which I can not find.
> > > Anyone, know what all I need to recompile trplayer for a modern Linux
os,
> > > and where to find the realplayer sdk or whatever it was it needs?
> > >
> > >
> > >  ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:07 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Converting real media to mp3.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Tom,
> > > > I've done this using a combination of
> > > > vsound, trplayer and lame.  vsound captures the raw output from
trplayer
> > > > which is piped into lame for mp3 encoding.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
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