[ubuntu-uk] Cant run RealPLayer 10

Benjamin Webb bjwebb67 at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 5 17:17:59 GMT 2007


On 05/12/2007, Primax <swift240 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pete Stean wrote:
> > Also, it might actually have installed - try to play some streaming
> > video from BBC news, which uses RealPlayer, to test it. In fact, you
> > don't need to install RealPlayer  at all to get that functionality -
> > the open source alternative, helix player, available in the official
> > repository works perfectly well for me...
> >
> > Pete
> >
> I went to www.movieflix.com
>
> I wen to mystery to open a file to see and it went to realplayer
> inbstead on movieplayer as was before, then a text editor opened up and
> I got this:-
>
> rtsp://g2.movieflix.com/flix/raven3vd_b.rm
>
> That was all.
>
> I also went to BBD news opened up a vidoe was asked Windows media player
> or Real Player I of course went o RealPlayer high quality the vidoe box
> opened up and nothing, I clicked on play but nothing.
>
>
> Now these films us RealPlayer all the time and no other.
>
>
> Mike.
>
>
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Personally, I use mplayer. In its normal install it could do the audio
of the BBC monkey clip posted, but with w32codecs it can also do the
video, although the sound and video seemed slightly out of sync (I
wonder if there is any way of fixing this).
.
Ben.



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