OT: the movie player and rm/ram files

[Gene Collins]

Hi Chuck.  I think you need to download the proper codex from the
mplayer site and then recompile it.  I've neever gotten this to work,
but I seem to remember that others have.

Gene

>The Linux movie player, mplayer, handles a lot of different
>formats, sometimes by handing the task off to other utilities.
>mp3 format is an example. But has anyone tried and succeeded to
>get mplayer to handle .rm files or .ram files? I know trplayer
>works well with those formats, as well as with .ra files, but I
>am trying to see how many such file types mplayer can handle.
>
>My realplayer installation is only a partial one, I have the RP8
>libraries installed, but not the RP executable, since trplayer
>does not require it. My mplayer has all the RP codecs available,
>but plays only .ra files and not .rm or .ram files. Before asking
>on the mplayer list, I am curious if anyone here has been able to
>get mplayer to handle the formats that trplayer/realplayer
>usually handle.
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck
>
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