[MPlayer-users] Re: new realaudio codec? "got message from server"

[michael higgins]

michael higgins wrote:

(following my own post) :-(

[snip]

>> Just a note RTSP protocol support is provided by the external
>>  live.com package.
>> you should download,build,install this first.
>>
> 
> 'Bingo'. For some reason, I'd had it with compiling that day and didn't 
> got the extra bit and get these libs.
> 

Postscript: From the live.com site:
"
LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries do not support RealAudio
  ...
Recently, however, MPlayer was updated so that it can play 
RealAudio/RealVideo "rtsp://" streams. It does this by first checking 
whether the URL ends with ".rm" or ".ra". If it does, it handles it as a 
special case, not using the LIVE.COM Streaming Media support. Otherwise, 
it uses the LIVE.COM Streaming Media support, as usual.
"

... which is probably why I didn't install it to begin with. I was 
looking to get realmedia streams, as their player gave me only crashes, 
and no command line.

> So, this will fix this problem? How is it I can play most of these files 
> now?
>> it is disabled by default.
>> could explain why it failed for you.
>> I tested it to play on my system.
> 
> 
> IOW, you have compiled the live dot com in your mplayer and it plays the 
> stream I couldn't play without these libs and codecs?
> 
> Cool. I'm wgetting the tarball now.
> 

If for some reason this _does_ fix the problem, I'll post again. '-0

[snip]

-- mike