Real Video, Helix, realplayer questions

[Rudolf Petzolt]

tir, 04,.04.2006 kl. 14.22 -0700, skrev Gary W. Swearingen:
> 1) Is anyone able to view www.c-span.org's C-SPAN with the
> helix-player from the package of the same name?  I tried it and got a
> popup saying the stream required capabilities only realplayer could
> handle.
> 
> 2) Is anyone able to view C-SPAN with realplayer reasonably well?
> As during my try with Debian (I'm now using kubuntu and running
> firefox, etc., in a 32-bit chroot), the standalone realplayer starts
> up, and while it's shaking hands with C-SPAN's Real servers, the menus
> behave normally, but as soon as it starts streaming the menus work
> _VERY_ slowly and the player soon throttles down from 100 bps to 32
> bps and the video is horrible, updating only every few seconds.  Sound
> is OK except for being relatively low volume.
> 
> (I guess my next try will have to be running a pure 32-bit OS and if
> that shares the problem (which I'll guess it will), I'll have to
> return to FreeBSD and try Linux again in 6-12 months.)
> 
> Thanks.

xine works.

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Rudolf Petzolt <petzolt at online.no>