trplayer in Debian

[Adam Myrow]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Lorenzo and Greg,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I use mplayer here already, but there are still a 
> few sites that trplayer/realplayer handle that mplayer cannot, so I often 
> switch from one to the other.

Can you give an example?  I'd like to see if it's just a configuration 
issue, or perhaps, a bug in Mplayer.  One thing I learned the hard way is 
that Mplayer doesn't recognize playlists like .m3u, unless you explicitly 
use the "-playlist" option on the command line.  If you use that, it won't 
recognize normal files.  This seems to be a bad idea if you ask me.  It's 
worth noting, though.  another thing is that you have to have installed 
the Real audio codecs in the right place before building Mplayer, assuming 
you build it from source.  I'm not sure how the Debian package is set up, 
but I found that without the Real codecs in the right place, Mplayer won't 
play anything but very old Real Audio files, presumably with its built-in 
decoder.