Real Player, WAS Re: Relicensing the AMR codec for inclusion in Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 09/18/2008 11:46 PM, Chris Jeffries wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 02:08 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
>>         
>>         Seems reasonably well behaved. Besides... it's pretty unlikely
>>         that RP
>>         can take over much of anything on linux. You could of course
>>         just run
>>         the Helix OSS software upon which RP linux is based:
> 
> 
> I remember those horrible versions of Real player too.
> 
> I HAD to install it on my Ubuntu because I wanted to listen to BBC
> broadcasts. Helix just would not work.
> 
> I can confirm that it is NOT the horrible beast it once was. OTOH, I
> would much rather be using open source if I could - however, compared to
> BBC I am a very small fish.

I see. Do you by chance use Adobe Reader, Flash, or Shockwave Flash,
Sun's Java 1.6x JRE, Google's Picasa or Google Earth, Skype, Win32
codecs, various wireless printer & video drivers, etc? How about
medibuntu's ffmpeg, mencoder, or mplayer versions (which do contain amr
codecs) or amarok (AAC-LC - .m4a supported)...