[ltp] Mandrake 9.1 KDE Tweaks

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:04:04 +0200


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 15:08:45 +0100, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > > mplayer does not support Real (Audio|Video) streams AFAIK.
> > > Actually mplayer DOES understand the real media file format. I'm
> > > not sure it would play STREAMING real media, but it can
> > > definitely decode an 'rm' file.  You may however need some of the
> > > proprietary codecs found at PLF. I know I usually install bunches
> > > of them, and the PLF version of mplayer/gmplayer. The MDK
> > > supplied versions may not have the right codecs installed.
> > I talked about streams, not files. Playing files will work with
> > mplayer.
> 
> MPlayer does supports streaming over rtsp:// , so it can play nearly
> any Realmedia stream.  However, this feature was added about 3 days
> after the last release (0.90), so at the moment, you have to use CVS
> to enable it.
> 
> Glyn

Ah, nice to read that. Thanks for the hint.

Regards,
Tino

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