[MPlayer-users] stream real files

[Johannes Feigl]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:11:36PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > > realmedia streaming support is not implemented, not even planned
> > > (requires a lot of R.E. work on their cryptography and probably break law)
> > 
> > i think that would be very interresting. most real-files in the internet
> > are available via PNM, so you will need realplayer ;-(.
> > 
> > i would it also make possible to reencode such a stream ...
> 
> yes, but pnm is patented, protected crypted protocol...
> 
> anyway i can put together some code which works as plugin for realplayer
> and dumps the video/audio stream down to a special avi file, supported by
> mplayer/mencoder
> (catch the decrypted audio/video data when the player sends it to the codecs
> - we know how the codecs work for now :))
> 
> another possible way is using the rp8 plugin to connect and stream rm files

would be very nice, since i know rm, i often wanted to download such
files, but it was not possible yet (or maybe I do silly ;-( )

mfg johannes